Quite a crash! Before the wild boar flood in the United States has not been solved, the Vietnamese big-bellied pig has flooded again, with a number of up to 6 million heads, which makes the locals very headache! There are big-bellied pigs in many parts of the United States, and thousands of large-bellied pigs are snoring and screaming on the road, not only destroying crops, but also attacking local humans.
Vietnamese big-bellied pigs invade the United States!
In 67 of the 78 cities on the island of Puerto Rico in the United States, large-bellied pigs have appeared, and due to the large number of pigs, these pigs run directly to the places where humans live in order to forage. Pigs of all sizes run around the streets, and when they are hungry, they will go to the garbage cans on the side of the street, mix with roosters and dogs, and leave behind pungent urine and feces, and when they encounter potholes with rainwater, they will stop to take a bath.
These big-bellied pigs are very adaptable and do not care about meat, and sometimes break into the yards of local residents and waste the grassland gardens, go to the farmland to steal crops, destroy crops in large quantities, and take the initiative to attack humans when they encounter human resistance. The local large-bellied pig flood is out of control, after staff from Georgia, Alabama and Florida helped weed out 500 pigs in four days, but that's just the tip of the iceberg compared to the number of floods.
What kind of pig is a big belly pig? Why is it flooding in the United States?
Large-bellied pigs are native to Vietnam, belong to Vietnam's native pigs, are omnivorous animals, mainly to flowers, leaves, rhizomes, insects, amphibians, etc. for food, large-bellied pigs are large and small, weighing about 27-130 kg, usually the main habitat is in the open woodland.
The breeding ability of large-bellied pigs is very strong, and they can give birth to 4-10 piglets at a time, so as early as the 1970s, the number of large-bellied pigs in Vietnam has exceeded one million. So Vietnam exported the big belly pig to Canada, Sweden and other places, in order to increase the local species, and puerto Rico in the United States began to have no pigs, introduced from the 14th century, the local people regard it as a delicacy, the number of the beginning can be controlled.
However, it was later discovered that the big-bellied pig was cute when it was small, and the pig was very intelligent, one of the most intelligent animals on the planet, second only to primates and dolphins in terms of intelligence. So some people will buy it as a pet and train them, and for a time the big-bellied pig was very popular in the local area.
But obviously, the people who raise them do not take into account their grown up, the big belly pig can grow to more than two hundred pounds when it becomes an adult, and the appetite is very large and very destructive, and when it can't find food, it will spread wild everywhere, comparable to the "husky of the pigs". First, the cost of raising pigs is too high, and second, the big belly pigs after adulthood are not good-looking, so many people will abandon the big belly pigs.
Coupled with the fact that after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, a large number of pigs escaped restrictions and were "released" into the wild, the local natural environment is very suitable for these big-bellied pigs to breed, and there is plenty of food. Therefore, the number of large-bellied pigs has increased exponentially, and in just a few years, the number has become uncontrollable and flooded in the local area, and the large-bellied pig is actually a species with domestic pigs and wild boars, that is to say, they can be hybridized between them.
How to deal with flooding 6 million only? No predators?
At present, the large-bellied pigs in the United States have crossed with other breeds of pigs, the number has reached 6 million, and some measures have been taken locally, such as using traps to trap, or some will be euthanized, but this behavior has also caused serious condemnation from local animal protection organizations, so do they have no natural enemies?
Of course! Beasts of prey such as jackals, wolves, tigers, leopards and so on are their natural enemies, but pigs are basically group activities, and their attack power is not weak, so beasts like tigers generally prefer to prey on deer. So so many pigs, why don't they eat them locally?
In China, wild boars used to be in the ranks of protected animals, so they could not be eaten, and even if they were now removed from the "three haves", they could not be killed privately. But in the United States, wild boars are invasive species, and there is no restriction on hunting, which can be used as food, why don't they eat it? We also said above that the big belly pig was used as an ingredient at the beginning, but after "wilding" it was not eaten, the reason was that there were germs.
Because of the long-term living in the wild environment, the big belly pig often rummages to eat, the food eaten and the contact environment are more mixed, so they will carry about 30 different diseases, in addition to a large number of germs, the probability of suffering from "foot-and-mouth disease" is very large. This is a disease mainly for cattle and pigs, once infected by humans, there will be fever, vomiting, mouth tissue ulcers, etc., a bit like "hand, foot and mouth disease", so in order to prevent the emergence of germs, the local people will no longer eat big belly pigs.
So what's your best way to do that for america's flooded big-bellied pigs? Well, I'm here today, pay attention to the passers-by, have heard the guests say, we'll see you next time.