The assumption has always been that rainy weather is good for ducks.Now a three-year study funded to the tune of £300,000 by the taxpayerhas proved it.

Two scientists from the University of Oxfordgave a lucky group of farm ducks access to a pond, a water trough and ashower. They discovered that the ducks spent an awful lot of time underthe shower, sometimes just standing there, others drinking from it.

"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting ashigh as a kite and going around in circles," the state's top lawmakerLara Giddings told local media on Thursday.

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

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