The video, reportedly deleted from an Instagram account that’s since been made private, and TikTok on a now-deleted account, shows a woman running across the road while holding a baby ... of the ...

running away as the baby’s mother pursues her. She later brings the joey back to its mother. “My dream of holding a wombat has been realised!,” Jones reportedly captioned the video. The clip sparked ...

Jones was then seen holding the joey, who appeared to cry in distress. "I caught a baby wombat!" she said, smiling, before the animal's mother approached the car. "OK mama's right there and she is ...

Sam Jones says she was trying to get the wombat safely off the road, and the video was not staged for social media.

In the film, Jones is shown running down the road toward a parked vehicle, from which she is being filmed, while clutching the joey. A screenshot taken from the Instagram account ‘samstrays_somewhere’ ...

She says she ran across the road "not to rip the joey away from its mother ... "My dream of holding a wombat has been realised! Baby and mom slowly waddled back off together into the bush." ...