Video: 'Remarkable' moment motorist left stunned by wallaby hopping across UK road

A 'bemused' motorist has captured footage of a wallaby bouncing along a main road in Devon - which has been described by an expert as 'remarkable'. The driver, who does not wish to be named, pulled over near Crediton after the marsupial appeared at the side of a main road.

She told documentary filmmaker and wildlife researcher, Tim Whittard, that she 'had never expected to see a wallaby casually hopping down the road, and thought it was a baby kangaroo at first'.

Mr Whittard, who investigates reports of out-of-place animals, described the sighting as 'remarkable'. “I’m not at all surprised by the sighting though, the presence of red-necked wallabies in the UK has been quite well reported on in recent years, and it is clear we have a small breeding population of them here in Britain.”

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