The metal marsupial was one of 10 animal sculptures installed on streetlights and signposts last month by the District Department of Transportation, which funded the “Alphabet Animal Art” project. “Maybe we should have called the police and filed a missing koala report,” says sculptor Davide Prete, who’s working on a replacement koala to perch higher up on the pole. Ideally, that will help it stay put this time, says Hannah Jacobson of the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, which managed the project. “Our goal was to make people look up and notice … that you are in a creative and vibrant community down here in Eastern Market and other parts of Southeast,” she says. See if you can find the other Capitol Hill critters, which, last we checked, are still where they’re supposed to be. Hint: Each animal shares its first initial with the street it’s on.