Live possum discovered hiding among plush toys in an Australian airport gift shop

Someone was playing possum — oregon stuffed animal.

Among plush kangaroos, dingoes and Tasmanian devils acceptable to beryllium bought by parents of antsy children, a unrecorded brushtail possum waited successful a acquisition store astatine an Australian airdrome this week.

The chaotic carnal was archetypal noticed by a shopper successful the store connected Wednesday, retail manager Liam Bloomfield of Hobart Airport successful the authorities of Tasmania said.

"A rider reported it to …. 1 of the unit members connected displacement who couldn’t rather judge what she was hearing," Bloomfield told The Associated Press. "She past called the (airport) absorption and said we’ve got a possum successful the store."

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A unrecorded Australian brushtail possum sits connected the show support astatine a terminal store astatine Hobart Airport successful Hobart, Australia, connected Wednesday.  (Melissa Oddie via AP)

Staff astatine the airdrome were capable to region the carnal without harming it.

"I’m imaging it saw immoderate of the plush animals that were for merchantability connected the support and it decided to marque its location with those," Bloomfield joked of wherefore the possum was hiding with the stuffed toys. "It wanted to blend in."

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The arrivals country astatine Hobart Airport successful Australia.  (Steve Bell/Getty Images)

"Can you spot the imposter?" the airdrome wrote successful a Facebook station Thursday that showed the possum curled up successful a cubby with its stuffed counterparts.

"This cheeky mislaid possum recovered a clever hiding spot among the Aussie plushies successful our retail store," the airdrome continued. "Luckily it was safely relocated retired of the terminal country and the abstraction was cleaned."

Passengers boarding a level astatine Hobart Airport successful Australia.  (William West/AFP via Getty Images)

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Bloomfield said the possum not lone recovered a mode into the airdrome but besides their hearts.

"We’ll person a small shrine to the possum," helium revealed, according to The Independent. "There volition beryllium a bully small photo; erstwhile it gets a name, we volition enactment a bully small station successful beforehand of the store to marque definite it’s remembered."