Baby kangaroo, four baby goats stolen from Wisconsin zoo

sQuashie

May 13, 2015 9:25 AM

The five-month-old kangaroo named Joey was taken out of its mothers pouch, which was stretched during the theft, he said.

Four of these goat were stolen

A baby kangaroo was taken from its mother's pouch and stolen along with four baby goats from a zoo in eastern Wisconsin, local police said on Monday.

The animals were taken from a winter holding barn a few miles from the Special Memories Zoo in Greenville on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, according to Terry Hammen, a lieutenant at the Outagamie County Sheriff's Department.

Hammen said zoo officials and authorities are especially concerned about the kangaroo's wellbeing because it needs to stay with its mother for its first year of life.

Zoo officials were not immediately available for comment.

Greenville is about 30 miles southwest of Green Bay near Appleton, Wisconsin.

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