Ontario Regional Police Ask Public to Be on the Lookout for Escaped Kangaroo

Grey kangaroos feed on grass near Canberra, Australia, in a file photo. Mark Graham/AP Photo

Ontario Regional Police are asking for the public’s help to find a missing kangaroo.

Police responded to calls about the kangaroo in the area of Harmony Road North and Winchester Road East in Oshawa around 7:41 a.m. Dec. 1, according to a social media post by Durham Police.

The animal went missing while at a “pit stop” at the Oshawa Zoo, according to police.

Sgt. Joanne Bortoluss told The Epoch Times in an email that the kangaroo escaped on the evening of Nov. 30.

“A delivery driver en route to Quebec with two kangaroos made a pit stop at the Oshawa Zoo to let the kangaroos stretch their legs,” Sgt. Bortoluss said. “Unfortunately, during this break, one of the kangaroos managed to escape and has been sighted multiple times.”

Park supervisor and head keeper for the Oshawa Zoo and Fun Farm Cameron Preyde told media the stop was meant to be brief.

“We were meant to be a hotel stop for this particular creature on its way to a zoo in Quebec,” he said in a CBC report. “As the animal handlers last night were trying to unload the animal, it jumped over their heads and escaped.”

The officers called out were unable to find the animal.

Sgt. Bortoluss said Durham Police have “no current involvement.”

A volunteer group called Team Chelsea is helping to find and contain the kangaroo, police said. The group posted a video of the escaped animal to social media.

Anyone who has information about or has spotted the animal is asked not to approach it but to call Team Chelsea at 905-666-4676.

The Epoch Times reached out to the Oshawa Zoo but did not hear back by publication time.