Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", according to Lara Giddings, Attorney General for the island state of Tasmania.
Ms. Giddings was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops and stated that the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine. Australia supplies about 50% of the world's legally-grown opium used to make morphine and other painkillers.
Rick Rockliff, a spokesman for poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids, said the wallaby incursions were not very common, but sheep have also been spotted in the poppy fields eating poppies and acting unusually.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk; Photo: ap
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