Invading ‘rat of the Sky’ Irks Algerians
“It’s not a bird, it’s a rat — and it’s squatting on my terrace,” Ali says of his new neighbour, a yellow-legged gull — a pest ubiquitous in the Algerian capital. The 60-year-old is not alone in despising this versatile scavenger, whose Mediterranean population has boomed in recent decades. The “rat of the sky” has … Read more