Grubby, Alaska’s most-wanted opossum, is settling into her new home at the Alaska Zoo. “Mainly we’re doing trust building right now, getting her to associate us with food,” said curator Sam Lavin.
Grubby is the first opossum to live at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage. She was settling in on Friday.
She arrived Wednesday night from Homer, and is the first opossum to claim residence at the zoo. Curator Sam Lavin said Grubby has been adhering to her nocturnal instincts by sleeping during the day and tearing up cardboard when she’s awake. Lavin said she’s working to win Grubby over. It’s been two months since Grubby’s unexpected arrival in Alaska. She was a stowaway in a shipping container from Washington state that was bound for Homer in March. Once she got to the Kenai Peninsula town, she immediately caused a stir as she wandered around and evaded traps. Some people wanted her captured and killed because opossums are invasive to Alaska. But other rallied around her, launching the hashtag #FreeGrubby., and biologists decided to send her to the Alaska Zoo.
The zoo plans to keep Grubby after she is done quarantining, but staff still need to decide how to design her exhibit.
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