{"id":1023861,"date":"2026-08-25T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1023861\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:00:21","slug":"two-kangaroos-killed-after-escaping-trailer-on-i-39-near-portage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1023861\/","title":{"rendered":"Two kangaroos killed after escaping trailer on I-39 near Portage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTAGE, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; Two kangaroos are dead after being hit on I-39 near Portage on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, four kangaroos escaped a trailer while the owner was stopped near the interstate to transfer animals between vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wisconsin State Patrol officials responded around noon Sunday on I-39 at mile marker 85 near Portage after they were called to assist after two of the kangaroos were hit by vehicles on the northbound on-ramp from WIS 78 to I-39.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Those two kangaroos did not survive, one was recovered by the owner and one kangaroo is still missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WSP asked drivers to not stop on the interstate to look for the missing kangaroo. If you see it, report it to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc15.com\/page\/find-nbc15-news-wherever-you-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to download the WMTV15 News app or our WMTV15 First Alert weather app.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTAGE, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; Two kangaroos are dead after being hit on I-39 near Portage on Sunday. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1023862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[409622,409623,56956,159,409619,67,132,68,837,1398,409621,409620],"class_list":["post-1023861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-kangaroos-escaped","tag-kangaroos-killed-on-interstate","tag-portage","tag-science","tag-state-patrol","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife","tag-wisconsin","tag-wisconsin-kangaroos","tag-wisconsin-state-patrol"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117158165023958500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}