Wombat not so cuddly

A FEISTY wombat who was in no mood for a pat has bitten a woman on the leg at a Queensland wildlife park.

Paramedics were called to the park after the not-so-cuddly marsupial sank its teeth into the woman’s calf in an animal petting area yesterday.

The 46-year-old suffered a deep bite and was taken from the park, at Woombye in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, to hospital in a stable condition.

“Paramedics described it as a fairly deep bite to her calf,” ambulance service spokesman Mark Fisher said.