{"id":1040282,"date":"2022-03-31T02:09:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/31\/look-possum-clinging-to-buoy-off-australian-coast-rescued\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T02:09:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:09:42","slug":"look-possum-clinging-to-buoy-off-australian-coast-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/31\/look-possum-clinging-to-buoy-off-australian-coast-rescued\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Possum clinging to buoy off Australian coast rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Possum-clinging-to-buoy-off-Australian-coast-rescued.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 30 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> An Australian scuba instructor teamed up with reserve rangers to rescue a possum spotted clinging to a buoy near a pier.<\/p>\n<p>The Whitecliffs Foreshore Reserve said in an Instagram post that rangers responded to a report of a possum seen hanging onto a buoy near Portsea Pier in Victoria&#8217;s Mornington Peninsula.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Luke English, who runs the RedBoats scuba diving business in Portsea, was at the pier at the time the rangers responded and offered to give them a ride to the possum on his boat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was the first and last possum I will ever see on a mooring in Portsea,&#8221; English told 9 News. &#8220;It was hilarious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The possum became spooked when the vessel approached and jumped into the water, but the rangers were able to ensnare the animal with a net.<\/p>\n<p>The marsupial was examined by a veterinarian and released back into the wild &#8212; on dry land &#8212; in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>English said the possum had likely been nesting on a boat and panicked when the vessel started to move, ending up in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 30 (UPI) &#8212; An Australian scuba instructor teamed up with reserve rangers to rescue a possum spotted clinging to a buoy near a pier. The Whitecliffs Foreshore Reserve said in an Instagram post that rangers responded to a report of a possum seen hanging onto a buoy near Portsea Pier in Victoria&#8217;s Mornington Peninsula. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1040283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}