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Pigs are more closely related to antelope, deer, cattle, hippos and other hooved animals. You have to go a long way back before you get to a common ancestor between bears and pigs. Bears are more closely related to raccoons, weasels, badgers, wolverines and other "new world" caniforms. Apart from sharing gender-specific nomenclature, they're not very close.
Pigs will definitely eat anything. In drought conditions such as we are experiencing here in Texas, a sow will abandon her piglets and may eat them as the need arises. Early this summer, I took a number of pigs who had been avoiding the heat by staying mostly submerged in oxbows and sloughs and their diet was, judging by examination of stomach contents, predominantly composed of duckweed and whatever crawfish and grubs they could turn up in the water. The same population of pigs last fall was eating mostly acorns and pecans and a pig I took in July had bone fragments and fur in it's stomach, probably a scavenged deer carcass. As bad as they are, you have to admire them a little.
They are very clever and adaptable creatures and they learn from hunting pressure very quickly. If they are under no pressure, they roam confidently day or night. If you shoot one during the day, they will avoid that place. If you shoot them somewhere else during the day, you'll never see them in the daylight again. If a group of pigs witnesses one of their own get caught in a trap, you'll never trap any of those pigs ever again. I think that their capacity for learning exceeds that of dogs and I swear that they can think their way around a problem. For example, I have game camera video of a boar eating all of the bait in a trap except for the bait on the trigger plate on a number of occasions. Placing bait only on the trigger plate brought the boar in for an inspection, but he wouldn't touch it. We're not talking dumb, they are "one-shot learners".
amazing....
guess that is why the Bible says, "Watch the beasts of the field and learn from them" or something on that order...but your post is very interesting, thanks so very much.....whew, amazing!!!! Please feel free to post more...I love reading about this....and thanks so much
jimboburnsy Yep. They say that the meek will inherit the earth, but I think it will actually be the pigs. They've just been biding their time for all these years.
LOL, the way things are going in this country, I wouldn't be surprised in the least...
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Also: pinnipeds. I forgot that bears are related to pinnipeds.
what are pinnipeds...and I know I can look this up, but enjoy reading you...so....
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LOL, the way things are going in this country, I wouldn't be surprised in the least...
what are pinnipeds...and I know I can look this up, but enjoy reading you...so....
Seals, sea lions and walruses are pinnipeds.
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