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Call for US tourist to 'leave' Australia after temporarily separating baby wombat from mom wombat for internet content
note: Mom wombat might not accept baby back.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/call-for-us-tourist-to-leave-australia-after-distressing-act-with-baby-wombat-004603169.html
The 34-second clip, which has now been deleted, shows the woman gleefully running back to her car holding the animal. “Just caught a baby wombat,” her laughing male Australian colleague can be heard saying from behind the camera. “Look at the mother, chasing after her.”
Illuminated by the light of her car, Jones poses with the struggling baby marsupial as it hisses defensively. “Momma’s right there and she is p*ssed,” the woman says while the man continues to film.
While the influencer has since pulled down the clip, it can still be searched online. "My dream of holding a wombat has been realised!" the caption reads.
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Licensed wombat rescuer Yolandi Vermaak told Yahoo News in most cases a brief separation is bad news for the baby, and that they should never be picked up.
“When I woke up this morning, my inbox had exploded with people sending me the video. After I watched it, I was probably the angriest I’ve ever been, it’s very distressing,” the Wombat Rescue founder said.
“Nine out of ten times, the mother will not come back for her baby if they’re separated. Babies are taught from a young age to stay nose-to-heel with their mum. So if mum runs when there’s danger, she doesn’t stop and check the baby, it needs to keep up.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/call-for-us-tourist-to-leave-australia-after-distressing-act-with-baby-wombat-004603169.html
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A US hunting influencer has sparked a storm of controversy online after posting footage of herself capturing a wild baby wombat from its mother and manhandling it.
Sam Jones, who posts social media as samstrays-somewhere and promotes herself as a “wildlife biologist and environmental scientist”, shared the footage in an Instagram reel.
The video shows Jones running across a country road to catch the juvenile wombat, while an Australian man laughs as he films the scene.
She runs back toward the unidentified man holding the clearly distressed wombat, whose feet are dangling in the air, as the man an is heard saying:“Look at the mother, it’s chasing after her!”
Jones’ Instagram account, which has been made private since the backlash, largely features images of her posing with dead animals she claims to have hunted.
The original Instagram reel of the incident was captioned that it was her “dream” to hold a baby wombat.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/social-media-life/2025/03/12/us-influencer-wombat
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14488745/US-tourist-baby-wombat-deport-Australia.html
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Hopefully this will cost her a fortune!! 
Hope this monster gets demonitized and banned from whatever platform is supporting this crap. 
