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The strange behaviour of a wombat has baffled two American tourists as well as wombat experts.
Chaz and Bee Taylor filmed the wombat while hiking near Bluff Hill Point on Tasmania's northwest coast.
The video shows the wombat appearing to forage in the shallow water.
'We really didn't know what a wombat looked like exactly, so that delighted us,' Ms Taylor said.
'We come from Montana and we have a lot of bears, so to us this looked like a little friendly bear.
'It's very much a land animal — most animals you don't see do that,' Mr Taylor said.
The couple were unsure if the behaviour was normal and sent their video to the Wombat Protection Society of Australia (WPSA).
The experts were just as baffled as the Taylors.
Victorian WPSA director Jennifer Mattingley told the ABC although she had heard of
