BBC Online:
Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around “as high as a kite”, a government official has said.Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.
She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops.
“The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,” Lara Giddings told the hearing.
“Then they crash,” she added. “We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high.
–Stoned wallabies are easy to spot. Right after eating the poppies the lot of them head for the nearest 7-11 for bean dip and Fritos.
In Australia the problem of drug addicted wallabies is so pervasive that as far back as 1957 a man named Rolf Harris tried to warn people about the dangers of dealing with stoned wallabies in the song “Tie me kangaroo down sport.”
♪Watch me wallaby’s feed mate.
Watch me wallaby’s feed.
They’re a dangerous breed mate.
So watch me wallaby’s feed. ♫
