2026年6月4日 / 美国东部时间上午7:29 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
周四，一只名为玛丽的袋獾成功躲过配备热成像无人机的搜救人员，出逃已进入第三天。这起事件发生在澳大利亚的一家野生动物园。
周二上午，园区管理员发现这只毛茸茸的食肉有袋类动物从昆士兰州黄金海岸的天堂乡村野生动物园的围栏中失踪。
园区官员在一份声明中表示，十余名野生动物专家在嗅探犬和热成像无人机操作员的协助下，已连续两晚对这只小动物展开搜寻。
声明称：“我们的首要任务仍是找到玛丽，确保其健康安全，我们将在今日及今晚继续开展搜寻工作。”
向公众公开的监控录像显示，玛丽在夜间跑进了野生动物园园区深处，这距离工作人员发现它失踪已经过去了数小时。
袋獾身手敏捷，多为夜行动物，一晚可跋涉10英里。这种动物在澳大利亚大陆上已灭绝超过3000年。
据塔斯马尼亚州环境部门介绍，这类有袋动物在野外最多可存活6年，雄性体重可达30磅，肩高1英尺。该野生动物园补充道，袋獾属于食腐动物，以动物尸体为食，“拥有超强的颌部力量，可以咬碎骨头、皮毛等一切物体”。
不过这只名叫玛丽的袋獾年仅2岁，相对年轻，而且“极其胆小怕生”，该野生动物园的馆长劳伦·马斯利说道。
她在出逃事件后的视频通报中表示：“通常这个年龄段的袋獾会更爱冒险，但考虑到玛丽一贯的性情，它会出逃是非常、非常反常的情况。”
马斯利表示，这只有袋动物的出逃情况目前仍是“一个未解之谜”。
“我们认为它完成了一次超乎寻常的跳跃，”她说，“正是通过这一跃，它逃出了隔离区域。”
马斯利警告公众，如果看到玛丽切勿靠近。
“如果受到挑衅，或是有人试图抓捕它们，袋獾可能会发起攻击，”她说道。
马斯利表示，一旦找到玛丽，将先对其进行全面的健康检查，之后再让它与同伴玛夫卡团聚。
尽管这种有袋动物在塔斯马尼亚州分布广泛，但它们已被列为濒危物种，正面临一种名为“袋獾面部肿瘤病”的罕见传染性癌症的严重威胁。
Tasmanian devil named Mary still missing 3 days after escaping wildlife park in Australia: “A mystery”
June 4, 2026 / 7:29 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
A Tasmanian devil named Mary successfully eluded searchers equipped with a thermal-imaging drone for a third day on Thursday after escaping from an Australian wildlife park.
Keepers discovered the furry, carnivorous marsupial was missing from her enclosure at Paradise Country wildlife park on Queensland’s Gold Coast on Tuesday morning.
A dozen wildlife experts backed by a sniffer dog and a thermal-imaging drone operator searched through two nights for the critter, park officials said in a statement.
“Our priority remains on relocating Mary to ensure her welfare, and we will continue to search today and into this evening,” it said.
CCTV images released to the public showed Mary running into the distance of the wildlife park’s grounds at night, several hours before her disappearance was noticed.
Tasmanian devils — agile, mostly nocturnal animals that can roam for 10 miles in a single night — have been extinct on the Australian mainland for more than 3,000 years.
The marsupials can live up to six years in the wild, with males weighing as much as 30 pounds and standing 1 foot tall at the shoulder, according to Tasmania’s environment department. According to the park, they are scavengers that eat dead animals and “can crush bones, fur, and all with super-strong jaws.”
Mary is relatively young at 2 years old, however, and “extremely shy,” said the wildlife park’s curator, Lauren Mousley.
“Generally around this age they can be a little bit more adventurous, but finding that she is the one that headed out is very, very abnormal given her demeanor,” she said in a video update after the breakout.
Mousley said the circumstances of the marsupial’s escape remain “a bit of a mystery.”
“We do think that an abnormally large leap has happened,” she said. “And that’s how she’s breached out of her quarantined area.”
Mousley warned the public not to approach the animal if they see her.
“Devils can be reactive if provoked or if anyone attempts to catch them,” she said.
When Mary is located, Mousley said, she will get a full medical assessment and then be reunited with her housemate, Mavka.
Though widespread on the island state of Tasmania, the marsupials are listed as endangered and face a significant threat from a rare, transmissible cancer known as devil facial tumor disease.
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