One tourist shared her interaction with a nutria on TikTok, writing: ‘Petting the giant water rats in Prague thinking they ...

I have footage on my phone of the rats jumping up onto my worktops where I prepare food.' Mrs O'Hara said she has sent numerous emails to Thirteen Group about the issue, along with the footage.

African giant pouched rats, which have previously been trained to sniff out buried mines and detect tuberculosis, are now being used to stop smuggling in Tanzania, The Guardian reported.