A wallaby has been spotted hopping across a country road tonight.

The animal was seen by a man driving home from the Tenterden Christmas market who shared his footage on Instagram.

While he joked it wasn't an every day sight, other people have spotted wild wallabies in the same area.

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Normally native to Australia and New Guinea, in April 2017 mum Lucy Austin pulled back the curtains at her Bethersden home to see the animal standing by some trees.

Others have seen the creatures, a smaller member of the kangaroo family, at Great Chart and on the A28 between Bethersden and Ashford late at night.

A theory is the animal, or animals, have come from the Capralama Farm in Bethersden, but are now living in the wild.