Wild boar spotted playing ball in city riverbed

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 6 - A wild boar was spotted playing with a ball in a dried-up riverbed in Genoa at the weekend.
    The animal was filmed pushing the ball around with its nose in the Bisagno River bed while three other boar looked on.
    "His team play will have to get better," said the official who filmed the incident, council chief Roberto D'Avolio.
    Boar incursions into Italian cities are becoming increasingly common.
    Citizens have lamented an 'invasion' by the species. (ANSA).