What I don’t understand is why this doesn’t just cause some entrepreneurial red blooded American to start selling cheap free range pig
Hunting them is a pita. They’re smart and cautious so if they think they’re in danger they’ll hide all day. They’re strong and compact so they can push their way in to very dense brush where following them is a pita. Large groups will often scatter when disturbed, tanking off in every direction. It’s time consuming, you need a lot of people and dogs, generally with thermal and night vision gear among other expensive kit, you have to cross fences and property lines which is a huge problem in america.
This headline is so cool bc they’re literally just pigs. Hogs. Swine. Porklers. There’s nothing super about them, but “feral pigs cause ecological damage” isn’t going to get eyeballs in from of microtargetted advertising for something you already own!
These do better in the cold than the ones down south.
Winters have been keeping the other ones from moving up.
Domestic pigs are weird because in just a few weeks of being released into the wild they go completely feral.
Domestic pigs also interbreed with wild boars at a rate dramatically greater than feral domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dingos do in the wild.
Hog posting is so back.
