Wild boars are a wild animal that we are very familiar with, and in the past most forests existed, and they broke into the surrounding areas of villages in droves, destroying crops and making farmers and friends uncomfortable. Later they disappeared from the woods for a while, and in recent years, wild boars have appeared frequently in the news.
Wild boars in many parts of the country have reached the point of flooding, such as Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, where the economic losses caused by wild boar ravaging between 2014 and 2020 are as high as 120 million.
Wild boars not only destroy crops, but also injure people, and during the above time period, there were 10 incidents of wild boar injuries in Ankang City, resulting in one death and nine injuries.
In the past, although wild boars lived in the forest, there were also predators such as tigers, leopards, jackals, etc. Limited by natural enemies, the natural growth rate of wild boars was first of all, and the number was maintained in a dynamic balance.
However, later the tiger and leopard disappeared one after another, and wild boars that lacked the restrictions of natural enemies quickly multiplied, and some areas have exceeded the upper limit of environmental carrying, resulting in wild boar flooding.
In order to curb the development of wild boars, humans intervened, formed hunting teams, and reasonably hunted wild boars. But people found that although humans shot, but many places achieved little results, such as Tongjiang County, Sichuan, a price of 2,000 yuan a head to hire a professional hunting team to deal with wild boar, the result is that with the blessing of a shotgun, a hunting dog imported from abroad worth more than 60,000 yuan is still being bitten to death in the process of rounding up wild boar.
People always hear the description of "wild boar flooding in many places", so how many wild boars are there in the country? According to the survey, the number of wild boars in China is conservatively estimated to be as high as 1.2 million, while the number of wild boars in Hubei, Anhui, Zhejiang, Henan, Sichuan and other places is relatively large.
For example, as early as 2006, according to the estimation of the Zhejiang forestry department, the number of wild boars in the province has exceeded 100,000, in order to suppress the number of wild boars and prevent the harm of wild boars from continuing to expand, Zhejiang Province killed 1360 wild boars that year.
People wonder why wild boars have been able to flood wild boars with the improvement of the environment, even to the point of local extinction. And tigers and leopards and other beasts of prey are growing slowly? The reason behind this has an important relationship with the reproductive ability of wild boars.
In almost all habitats, wild boars are the base prey for large predators, so their reproductive ability must be strong enough. Wild boar is "polygamous" system, the gestation period of the female wild boar is 4 months, a litter can produce 4-12 cubs, many wild boars can give birth to two litters a year, and the survival rate of cubs is extremely high, coupled with the lack of natural enemy inhibition, so they grow rapidly.
On the other hand, although most animals such as wild boars and tigers and leopards disappeared from the forest after the 1960s, unlike the real wild disappearance of the South China tiger, animals such as wild boars only disappeared partially, and there are still healthy populations in some rare deep mountain forests.
Later, with the improvement of the environment and the improvement of animal protection awareness, wild boars can return to the areas that originally survived but later disappeared through the ecological corridor, which is one of the functions of the ecological corridor: the dispersal of juvenile animals and the return of species.
There is a saying in the countryside of northeast China, called "one pig, two bears and three tigers", which does not mean that wild boars are more powerful than tigers and bears, but that it is more dangerous to humans than the latter, in other words, wild boars are a very fierce and terrible wild animal for humans.
Although it does not have the sharp claws of a tiger, its thick skin and thick defensive attributes, coupled with fangs, can cause fatal injuries to people. In fact, not only for humans, for tigers, wild boar is also a very difficult prey, its limbs are short and low chassis, the neck is short and thick, and it is not easy to be locked throat.
Pigs have always been considered docile animals, but wild boars are the opposite. Wild boar omnivores and can eat almost anything it can eat, so it is destined to be more ferocious than predators, and it is not afraid of being injured, because even if it is injured, it will not have much impact on obtaining plant-based food. In contrast, tigers and leopards will be difficult to hunt once injured, so these animals are more cautious and timid.
The fat layer of the wild boar is very thick, which can protect important organs; it likes to roll in the mud, the coat on the body is intertwined with the mud, and the wind and sun are blown and sun for many years, forming a natural armor; the fangs on the body are deadly weapons, which can bring serious penetrating wounds to the opponent, and the bacteria on the body will cause subsequent wound infections.
Male wild boars, in particular, are more aggressive, and during the estrus period, they will grow a layer of 2-3 cm of subcutaneous tissue from the shoulder blades to the buttocks, protecting important organs in battle and dealing with one or two hounds, which is really not a difficult task.
A 2012 study showed that between 1825 and 2012, a total of 665 people were attacked by wild boars and were injured to varying degrees, most often in rural areas during the winter months.
Although the boar's attack method is relatively single, mainly using the charge style to turn people over, but the terrible is terrible in its attack is many times in a row, after an attack is completed, if the victim is still moving, the boar will immediately carry out a new round of attack, until it thinks that the other party is no threat. Therefore, the reason why they are often seriously injured when attacked by wild boars comes from this.
Tongjiang County, Sichuan, one of the pilot counties for the prevention and control of wild boar damage, intends to artificially kill 750 wild boars in 2021 to curb their excessive growth, and even offered a price of 2,000 to hire a hunting team.
It is still difficult to "kill pigs" under the heavy reward, wild boars lie out at night, their long noses are extremely sensitive to smell, and once humans appear nearby, they will immediately flee, so they can only rely on hunting dogs to find the location of wild boars.
The territory of Tongjiang County has many canyons and woodlands, which is extremely conducive to the growth of wild boars, but it is not a small challenge for humans, which is the home of wild boars, and it is extremely difficult to hunt wild boars that jump into the mountains and forests.
On the other hand, it is a real problem, hunting seems to be a very interesting thing, loved by men, but once the dream shines into reality, you will find that the real hunting is a chore, to endure mosquito bites, damp, hot heat, cold, mountains and mountains, etc., most young people are not willing to do this, so throughout the country, whether it is a long-established professional hunting team, or a temporary hunting team, the members are generally old, the vast majority of them are more than 50 years old, and there are many members over 60 years old.
The breeding speed of wild boars is very fast, and if the established hunting goal is not completed, the growth of wild boars is difficult to suppress.
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