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

Hopping mad: stoned wallabies make crop circles
June 25, 2009 – 12:57PM

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

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.