Wallaby escapes upstate petting zoo

Simpsonville, S.C. (CNN/WOLO)–First it was monkeys, then emus, now an escaped wallaby?
Sylvester the wallaby is on the run.
Officials say he was one of a pair of wallabies in a holiday petting zoo in Simpsonville that managed to break free.
The other has been captured.
Neighbors have reported sightings but so far, he’s eluded capture.

Wallabies are marsupials like kangaroos – but smaller.
They’re native to Australia and New Guinea.
Officials don’t yet know how the wallabies escaped their cages.

The wallaby escape is the latest in a series of animals-on-the-run stories in the Palmetto state.

In November dozens of monkeys escaped from a lab in Yemassee and in the same month a pair of emus broke free from a farm in Horry County.