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Rex, the wallaby that went missing Monday nighttime from a South Jersey carnal sanctuary aft breaking retired of his enclosure, was recovered harmless Tuesday night.
Lots of Love Farm successful Williamstown, New Jersey, said Rex was recovered astatine the Williamstown Walmart disconnected the Black Horse Pike, adjacent to wherever helium was archetypal spotted Monday night.
"THANK YOU EVERYONE YOU'RE ALL AMAZING," Lots of Love Farm wrote connected Facebook. "HE MUST REALLY LIKE WALMART!!!LOL."
A radical of teenagers helped seizure Rex aft helium spent astir 24 hours hopping astir Gloucester County. Gavin Buniak and his friends wrangled Rex earlier getting him backmost home.
Ron Layden, who owns Lots of Love, said it's imaginable that idiosyncratic accidentally near Rex's pen unfastened earlier helium escaped sometime astir 4 oregon 5 p.m. connected Monday.
Gavin Buniak and the friends who helped seizure Rex the wallaby
Gavin Buniak
"He's astir apt hunkered down somewhere," Layden said Tuesday morning. "But I don't deliberation the cold's going to fuss him."
Monroe Township Police said respective officers responded to reports of a escaped "kangaroo" that was astir deed by a car portion crossing the thoroughfare adjacent East Malaga Road and South Black Horse Pike Monday night, and besides received a telephone astir the wallaby being spotted astatine the Walmart.
Several videos posted connected societal media showed a kangaroo-like carnal hopping astir extracurricular the store earlier being located Tuesday.
Lots of Love Farm said a drone favored locating institution helped with the search.
Wallabies are akin to kangaroos, but a spot smaller. They usage their agelong tails for balance, and they typically hop astir connected their almighty hind legs. They are autochthonal to areas of the South Pacific similar Australia and Papua New Guinea.
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