BOSTON : ''RAT -SOCIAL MEDIA- TAT''

RATATOUILLE? Seagull swallowing rat video released.

THIS RAT is getting a lot of mouse clicks. A British tourist visiting Boston captured on video a hungry seagull devouring a dead rat in a single gulp and post it on social media, prompting thousands of horrified comments.

The video shows the gull pecking tentatively at the rodent before picking it up in its beak and swallowing the entire animal.

The bird then flies atop a parked car on Salem Street in the heart of Boston's North End, popular for its dozens of Italian restaurants - the rat's tail hanging from the gull's mouth.

The identified Briton who caught the beastly breakfast on camera can heard exclaiming : ''Oh my God, it just swallowed it whole............ Ratatouille?'' [Agencies]