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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Tasmanian devil Mary found 2km from her Gold Coast theme park home after two weeks on the run

Tasmanian devil Mary was spotted on CCTV camera within Gold Coast theme park Paradise Country the morning she disappeared. She has been found 2km away.
Tasmanian devil Mary was spotted on CCTV camera within the Gold Coast theme park Paradise Country the morning she disappeared. She has been found 2km away. Photograph: Paradise Country

After two weeks eluding thermal imaging drones and teams of zookeepers, a Tasmanian devil on the run in the Gold Coast has finally been found – and taken to hospital in an unstable condition.

The devil, Mary, escaped a quarantine facility in the Paradise Country theme park – more than 1,500km north of her native range – in the early morning dark of 2 June, with zookeepers believing an “abnormally large leap” saw her clear a fence.

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