https://www.newsweek.com/feral-wild-pigs-crossing-canada-us-border-1846736
You think Cody's been sounding the horn on the boar conspiracy for years without being prepared when they come knocking at his door?
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!
America (and other settler states) can only frame things as wars, invasions, battles, or other conflicts
Hexbears always saying "Post hog" like posts about hogs are a laughing matter. They're not. I have it under good authority that they have been in talks of mutual aid with Hamas. Can you even fathom the terror as they begin flooding out of tunnel networks across the west? You swine justice warriors make me sick.
I'm the hog inspector. Each piggy must present itself to me to be judged and given a lil' smooch on it's headybye before being allowed in.
Unfortunately most porciforms from the African conteninent are non sus so we can't actually breed a murderous turbo-hog.
I see the US is only in its pre-hog days. Looking forward to what comes next
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.
They do, and make big bank; but once you start you have no incentive to reduce the population as then you'd run out of pighunts to sell.
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.
What was the scifi book set in the not too distant future where climate change ravaged the US and hogs of unusual size were a major threat? Was it Termination Shock?
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