Stoned wallabies create opium crop circles

Wallabies are getting stoned on Tasmania's opium poppy crops and hopping about in circles.

Attorney-General Lara Giddings says wallabies have created crop circles of squashed poppies as they increasingly hop in to the fields eating the poppy heads.

That causes them to get high and run around in turns creating crop circles, she told a budget estimates hearing.

"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," Ms Giddings is quouted in The Mercury newspaper as saying.

"Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

Tasmanian Alkaloids field operations manager Rick Rockliff said wildlife and livestock which ate the poppies were known to "act weird" - including deer and sheep in the state's highlands.

"There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," Mr Rockliff told The Mercury.

Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical market.

About 500 farmers grow the crop supplying the market with about 50 percent of the world's raw material for morphine and related opiates.

- AAP

Read a BBC article on stoned wallabies here.

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Kommentare

redhead - 2009-06-26 21:27:48

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

joker - 2009-06-27 14:46:11

trippy skippy ;)

bean - 2009-06-27 16:32:41

They are doing this "increasingly".. Who woulda thought.. they know whats good

bzz - 2009-06-28 01:47:57

wallabies are lucky animals

Elbrasi - 2009-06-28 11:39:11

Thats verry funny xD

Mullerrwd - 2009-06-28 18:47:27

Omg I had to laugh so hard (could have been the Santa Maria too;))
ciao

Ben - 2009-06-30 09:41:25

Was ist hier mit deutsch los ? keine Übersetzung ?
SCHADE !

gaboss - 2009-07-01 08:24:04

-1

lern to speak a worlds language, ben.

... it raises your intellect *wink*

chiller - 2009-07-04 08:59:05

LOL^^

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