Kind of curious, am I being a good environmentalist by still avoiding consuming meat and leather from invasive species?
I get feral hogs are a threat, but how viable is grey wolf reintroduction?
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super pig sounds like a muppets parody of rick james
Leopards hunt boar naturally. The solution is clearly to release dozens of leopards into the worst affected areas.
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Smarter than dogs and rapidly adapable
A group that gets shot at during the day becomes strictly nocturnal within a week
Holy fucking shit these pigs are unstoppable
i knew this guy that was a cautious hunter. i think hunting was something his father got him into, and he rarely went out... and rarely took a shot at anything when he did. so not like avid or a pro.
he didn't want to pay some landowner for the right, so he had an agreement with a landowner that he could go out for free so long as he promised to shoot any feral hogs which had been tearing things up i guess for years. the area has had feral hogs since de Soto's march in 1500.
i asked him how it was going. honestly it seemed like he just wanted an excuse to sit quietly in the woods, because he would see deer all the time and just watch them / not shoot. but he did want to try and get a hog on behalf of the landowner so he could keep coming.
he described hunting them as basically impossible solo. like it would take a team with radios and a very coordinated, geographically specific plan. that they were too smart and too fast and could just rip through dense understory like it wasn't there. he only ever saw evidence they had been somewhere, but only heard one once when it must have realized he was near and bolted away. he couldn't see shit, but he heard it crashing away through undergrowth faster than he could sprint on open ground, and it sounded big enough that he was glad it was increasing the distance between them.
i think the only way solo hunters do it is with traps. big, terrifying traps.
Looks like the leopard voters will get the last laugh.
we're gonna need smarter leopards
and outsmart almost everything we throw at them.
When people ask if the average yankee is dumber than a pig, we can now answer confidently that they are.
As if being being greedier than a pig wasn't bad enough. 
America has been the land of super pigs for at least a few centuries
yes we know obama gave the police surplus rifles and MRAPS but i'm inclined to scoff at the appellation "super" and i surely doubt more than a few grains have reached such prodigious weights. perhaps they're measured when in full riot gear?
Actually they're really heavy because they're made of metal. See the documentary Robocop for more information.
what's the exchange rate of feral pigs to super hogs?
engineered by accident
Reads like “intentionally unintentional”
Ah so maybe we're headed for the Oryx and Crake style apocalypse afterall
Oh we already have hybrid wild boar here. They are vicious and destructive and breed like rabbits. The only humane thing is culling.
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