People foraged in dumps and garbage cans for food.

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"It's an explosion, they are behaving like hunting animals, " said Patrick Moenaert, mayor of the towns of Brugge and Zeebrugge, which recently built two underground dumps to keep gulls from the garbage.

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Growing up in Jaipur, the trash dumps used to be plentiful, and there was a garbage dump right by his house.

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