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Hippo attacks on humans are virtually always defensive in nature because they are highly territorial and people keep encroaching on their turf, either to share the river to live or, increasingly now, as tourists (or poachers), but they don't seek out humans to harm and never eat them. Feral hogs, not so much!
The animals in this story aren't feral hogs - i.e. domestic pigs that escaped human captivity - but wild boar. A native wildlife species in Europe.
I went on a pig hunt on the Big Island once back in the late 70s. We used dogs and .44 lever-action carbines. That was a heck of an experience, in that it was physically rigorous chasing the dogs chasing a pig through the brush (to be honest: jungle), and then trying to get a bead on the pig while exhausted and trying to catch my breath...before the pig decided to take out one of the dogs and make a break for it. You get a shot at the pig, then the pig gets a shot at you.
I've watched guys on Oahu take on a pig with net and knife...too sporting for my blood.
But the feral pigs in Texas are putrid. They have no choice cuts.
Some folks hunt Wild Boar by sitting up in a tree, when it is known they are in the neighborhood...
what is that Hannibal movie where a guy in wheelchair is pushed into a pit full of hungry pigs ?
It is interesting we eat pork and beef and not realise pigs are carnivorus while cows are not .
Pigs also eat ic cream,Ben and Jerry will send their misfit icecream to pig farm,so do the LAS VEgas buffet leftovers.
Keeping a few pigs around to dispose of unwanted, hostile trespassers has crossed my mind.
What a horrific thing to witness. They're very lucky to be alive. Wild boars are menaces everywhere.
Great Danes were bred to hunt wild boars, and protect people/hunters from them, and even bears.
Well that chihuahua was an appetizer for them
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