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http://gizmodo.com/wild-pigs-are-taking-over-america-and-your-county-is-ne-1791931784
Researchers at the USDA’s National Wildlife Research Center collected data on America’s invasive wild pig population, and saw the porkers’ already enormous range expanding. The models predict that if folks don’t pass some precautionary measures, we could see wild pigs ****ing shit up all across America soon—like in the next few decades.
“Without immediate and enhanced efforts to curtail the spread of [invasive wild pigs], we predict that large portions of the USA are in immediate risk of invasion,” write the study’s authors. A pig invasion. A pigvasion. Inbacon?
Feral pigs, wild boar, whatever you want to call them, are the undomesticated version of the usual pink farm piggies. Some are escaped domestic pigs, others boars from Europe introduced here in the US for people to hunt. The piggies are dangerous since they don’t have any particular food preferences and adapt to pretty much wherever, according to the paper published in the Journal of Applied Ecology on Monday. The US already spends an annual $1.5 billion controlling their spread and cleaning up the crops they damage. Aside from bears and possibly cougars, humans are their main predators, so it’s up to us to keep the pigs in line.
So please, stop releasing pigs into the wild. And as a reminder, wild boar tastes super good, better than pork in my opinion.
Researchers at the USDA’s National Wildlife Research Center collected data on America’s invasive wild pig population, and saw the porkers’ already enormous range expanding. The models predict that if folks don’t pass some precautionary measures, we could see wild pigs ****ing shit up all across America soon—like in the next few decades.
“Without immediate and enhanced efforts to curtail the spread of [invasive wild pigs], we predict that large portions of the USA are in immediate risk of invasion,” write the study’s authors. A pig invasion. A pigvasion. Inbacon?
Feral pigs, wild boar, whatever you want to call them, are the undomesticated version of the usual pink farm piggies. Some are escaped domestic pigs, others boars from Europe introduced here in the US for people to hunt. The piggies are dangerous since they don’t have any particular food preferences and adapt to pretty much wherever, according to the paper published in the Journal of Applied Ecology on Monday. The US already spends an annual $1.5 billion controlling their spread and cleaning up the crops they damage. Aside from bears and possibly cougars, humans are their main predators, so it’s up to us to keep the pigs in line.
So please, stop releasing pigs into the wild. And as a reminder, wild boar tastes super good, better than pork in my opinion.
