Kangaroo drunken opium

The kangaroos ran around in place after hitting the poppy poppy in Australia.

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A wallaby mouse in Australia.

People grow poppy trees on Tasmania Island, Australia to provide raw materials for pharmaceutical companies. Wallaby rats often break into these fields to eat poppy plants. The effect of morphine in poppy plants caused them to stumble, turn around in place or run wild, the BBC reported.

"The condition of small kangaroos invading poppy fields has become a big problem. After eating poppy plants, they rotate in place and fall. We see a lot of circular depressions in the fields. The opium poppy created by the kangaroo, ' Lara Giddings, Tasmanian state attorney general, told parliament about the security situation of poppy flower fields.

Small kangaroos are not the only animals on Tasmania that like poppy trees.

"Many people say that sheep eat poppy trees left on poppy fields that people have harvested. After eating they also walk in a circle and then n men," said Rick Rockliff, a public spokesman. Tasmanian poppy plant Alkaloids, said.

Poppy plants contain morphine, a substance capable of relieving pain, causing sleepiness and pleasure. Humans purify morphine to produce heroin.