The most invasive animal on the planet.
I think humans win that trophy.
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To be fair, we are behind the whole invasive species thing
"Who is more invasive? The invasive species or the invasive species who imported it?" -- Obi Wan Swinobi
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Yeah, way into the planetary infestation phase too, and already triggered the 6th mass extinction event.
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At least they sound like a viable game animal. Invasive species to you, 100lbs of free pork for Billy out in the woods. We use it to control deer populations from exploding in certain areas where we've removed the top predator though, and we just kinda take its place. Can potentially help with any animal that has the misfortune of being both tasty and economical to go out and hunt for.
Won't eradicate them or anything, but will help keep them in check. It's a facet of that old alliance between hunters/fishermen and environmental activists.
Unfortunately they'll still see population growth....
That means 65% or more of a wild pig population could be killed every year and it will still increase, Brook said. Hunting just makes the problem worse, he said. The success rate for hunters is only about 2% to 3% and several states have banned hunting because it makes the pigs more wary and nocturnal — tougher to track down and eradicate.
They are clever animals. You have to play the long con if you want to deal with their populations. Ive seen things where they actually feed them and gradually pen them in and the liquidate the whole drove.
My family in GA does a lot of this. They are farmers & have been successful in keeping feral hogs out of their fields. Hunting & trapping absolutely does work, you just have to know what the hell you're doing.
I shoulda opened the article instead of just reading the synopsis. That is concerning.
I'll point out though, that since it's a new prey animal to the area, it will take time for the locals to learn how to hunt it effectively. It's behavior needs to be learned first, so effective approaches can be devised.
But ... delicious, economical and challenging is also something a hunter might find interesting.
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Just declare open season and no bag limit on pigs in all northern states. I guarantee you all the Bubbas and outdoorsmen will take care of it.
They're not able to keep up with the breeding in Texas, and there's even helicopter tours where you can try and wipe out whole herds at a time.
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In many states it is, not just northern. Iirc Texas will pay you to take an AR into a field and take out as many as you can. People even organize hunts from helicopters hunting herds like they should have Fortunate Son playing (no full auto though just ARs and typically BYOAR and ammo iirc.)
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This is already the case in Saskatchewan and it hasn't managed to curb the population.
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Cody and the people at Some More News have been warning us for YEARS of this menace: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkJemc4T5NYZRH_2kTRBKeYVf6mmx0lQK&si=-A-aUBoR8svt17W2
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"Super pigs" — called the "most invasive animal on the planet"
Human: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
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and we all made fun of that 30-50 feral hogs guy
truly we were the fools all along
Feral hogs have been a problem for a while. They do tons of damage to southern agriculture each year. USDA estimates 1.5 billion dollars worth annually. https://www.nifa.usda.gov/about-nifa/impacts/southern-region-land-grant-researchers-finding-feral-hog-solutions
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I love problems we can eat our way out of... if we almost wiped out the buffalo these little shits shouldn't be an issue.
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Super-pigs threatening to invade America?
I knew all that military spending would come in handy
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Pork for the pork God.
Build a wall! The pigs are going to pay for it!
The bacon tax.
"most invasive animal on the planet"
Oh, just wait until you find out about humans...
Can wild wolves keep them in check? Coyotes seem too small to kill an adult wild pig. (I have no idea.)
The pigs are mainly around agricultural areas. We're on the bare edge of the Canadian prairie (10km from the edge of forest that extends 2500km to the west and however far to the tundra) and we rarely see wolves even here. They aren't really a predator for the Russian boar that are now endemic in our area.
Between the 3 of us here on the farm, we've probably shot (and eaten because they're delicious) about 200 of them over the last 5 or 6 years. And we've knocked them back a bit on our own land, but they just breed over on other people's farms and give ours a wide berth now.
Biggest one we shot was over 500lbs
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Imagine thinking about a working natural ecosystem (co)existing in the same era as humans, preposterous.
:'(
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I know this is bad, but I also know I'm not the only one whose first thought was, "super bacon".
Oh, ok, so like literally, not a title about overseas mutated police force ...
A close one with all them nuclear reactors being hacked to produce, em, hybrids.
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I'd say we could use Spider-Pig to stop the Super Pigs, but you're not supposed to mix Marvel and D.C.
EDIT: Guess you guys aren't Simpsons fans.
The risk is that if these pigs cross with a hypothetical manbear then we would have an unstoppable being that's half man, half bear, half pig.
FREE BACON!
If we can wipe out the passenger pigeon, we can surely wipe out some nice tasty pork.
Stupid solution suggestion: set up plenty of bait traps that'll cage them. Barbecue ensues.
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I think we better do what the pigs say guys. The threats sound like they've got a bone to pick with the US.
Seems our boarder security it lacking if something as large as a pig can just walk through.
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