As reports of the breakout streamed in to usurp the media's spotlight from actual news events , it became evident that seemingly superior human brainpower alone would not outwit the frighteningly small parma wallaby which had escaped a local zoo Saturday, Sept. 13, and is to this minute roaming the dark, sometimes light, streets of the northern German town of Bredstedt.

The creature, which once roamed the vigilante-less bush of the Australian state of New South Wales and is now subject of hot pursuit by Bredstedt's finest, was one of two wallabies to have escaped the minimum security zoological facility.

The second escapee was also of south-eastern Australian extraction and has since been recaptured.

The 50-centimeter tall (20-inch) marsupial is not to be mistaken for the much larger mammal that goes by the same name and represents Australia in the game of rugby union.

The creature has been sighted a couple of times by watchful locals but has so far managed to outwit -- and out-hop -- its pursuers.

Well outside its natural habitat, the parma wallaby is said to be a shy, cryptic creature of modest standing in the Macropus genus.

Of reassurance to the wary residents of Bredstedt, officials said the creature is neither carnivorous nor dangerous.