Wild Australian wallabies are eating large amounts of opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "spaced out and as high as a kite", an Australian government official has said.
Lara Giddings,Tasmania's attorney general, said the wallabies 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.
A spokesman for poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids, said the wallaby incursions were not very common, but other animals including lizards,rabbits and snakes had also been spotted in the poppy fields acting unusually.
"There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," he added.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1195417/Stoned-opium-munching-wallabies-create-crop-circles-crashing-poppy-fields.html
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