Packs Of Ravenous Wild Boars Are Ransacking Rome

Wild boars eat garbage near trash bins in Rome on Sept. 24. They have become a daily sight, as families of wild boars trot down the city streets, sticking their snouts in the garbage looking for food.

ROME — Rome has been invaded by Gauls, Visigoths and vandals over the centuries, but the Eternal City is now grappling with a rampaging force of an entirely different sort: rubbish-seeking wild boars.

Entire families of wild boars have become a daily sight in Rome, as groups of 10-30 beasts young and old emerge from the vast parks surrounding the city to trot down traffic-clogged streets in search of food in Rome's notoriously overflowing rubbish bins.