The Alaska Zoo welcomes another stowaway opossum, this time from Juneau
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska Zoo has named its newest resident “Meatball,” a juvenile male opossum who was caught in a trap Thursday at a business near the Juneau airport and delivered to the zoo in Anchorage on Friday by Alaska Fish and Game biologists.
Opossum are not native to Alaska and are considered invasive species.stowed away in a shipping container and surfaced in Homer in 2023. She went on the run for weeks while officials tried and failed to capture her.“I think Grubby really held kind of an Alaskan spirit,” Lavin said. “And just her running around Homer and evading people for so long just had people cheering for her.” Grubby proved extremely popular at the zoo as her story went national. It captured the attention of a documentary film crew from Seattle who started shooting a feature film about Grubby in 2024.“Our original ending was ‘she lived happily-ever-after at the zoo,’ but now we have an epilogue of the torch being passed,” said independent filmmaker Georgia Krause. Zoo workers say Meatball is settling in after arriving on Friday, and while still a little nervous, is coming out to keepers to enjoy apples and chicken flavored cat food. ‘Every fiber of me wishes I could change it all’: Veteran musher posts tribute to dog who died during IditarodAlaska boy battling cancer delivers 124 Easter baskets to hospitalized children
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