Wallaby spotted in North London CEMETERY - and even experts say it's a 'mystery how he got there'

Animal lovers have been left mystified after spotting a wallaby hopping between graves at a cemetery in North London.

The marsupial was seen wandering between bushes and gravestones at Highgate Cemetery on Monday.

Its appearance in Highgate has baffled zoologists, who confessed it's a 'mystery how he got in'.

Maurice Melzak was one of the experts who filmed the wallaby as it hopped around the cemetery.

He said: 'Highgate Cemetery is a mysterious and wonderful place.

'It already has many non-native species, including all sorts of insects and arachnids, grey squirrels, ring-necked parakeets and the occasional muntjak deer.

'So maybe the odd wallaby isn’t such a bizarre notion?'

Visitor and volunteer coordinator Melanie Winyard said someone first spied the marsupial, which belongs to the same family as the kangeroo, on Sunday.

She added: 'It’s quite extraordinary and so unexpected,” she said.

'The West Cemetery is quite secure so it’s a mystery how he got in there but now he’s in, it’s quite a good place to be as he won’t be crossing the roads.'