A giant rat in South Africa, much like the ones which are thought to have killed two babies this last week.Giant rats as big as cats have killed and eaten two babies in separate attacks in South Africa's squalid townships this week.Lunathi Dwadwa, three, was killed as she slept in her parent's shack in the Khayelitsha slum outside Cape Town and another girl was killed in Soweto township near Johannesburg the same day.
77-year-old grandmother Nomathemba Joyi died after giant rats chewed off the right side of her face.Residents of South Africa's impoverished townships say the giant rats grow up to three-foot long, including their tails, and have front teeth over an inch long.The suspects in the baby attacks are believed to be African Giant Pouched Rats, a species only distantly related to UK rats, but native to sub-Saharan Africa - and the biggest in the world.
They are nocturnal, omnivorous and can produce up to 50 young a year. Some tribal people breed them for food.
They thrive in the townships' filthy conditions and feast on residents' uncollected rubbish.
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