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Text: Vientiane hardcore
Edited by Vientiane hardcore
«——【Preamble】】 ——»
If you want to say how "brilliant" the Wild Boar's record is, you have to mention its "great achievement" of once taking out a plane in the United States.
In 1988, a wild boar broke into a military airfield in Florida, USA, and suddenly became interested in an F-16 fighter jet parked on the apron.
The wild boar slammed into the plane at a speed of 100 meters, and the pilot, who had not had time to escape, was knocked to the nearby lawn due to inertia, and only suffered some minor abrasions.
But the plane was not so lucky, it was scrapped by a direct collision, and it is said that the cost of the plane was as high as 16 million dollars.
Such "crazy" wild boars, which have millions of them in the United States, have been flooded, and the Americans have been fighting against them for decades, and wild boars are still raging.
Why are wild boars in the United States so strong, and could they be genetic mutations? Where did they come from? How bad are Americans with the invasion of more than 6 million wild boars in the United States?
«【The Mystery of Super Pig's Origin】»
These frequent wild boars in the United States have another more figurative name, super pigs, they are not ordinary wild boars, but a cross between domestic pigs and wild boars.
Wild boars generally originated in Asia and Europe, and they have a history of 40 million years, and it is likely that today's domestic pigs have evolved from them.
During the Age of Discovery, Western navigators brought back to the Americas some endemic species of Eurasia, including wild boars, which relied on their superior adaptability to take root in this new land, but the population was still relatively weak.
Before entering the United States, super pigs had ancestors who lived in Canada and were the first to be created here.
In the eighties of the 20th century, Canada was strongly encouraging farmers to raise wild boars and then try to cross wild boars with domestic pigs.
The scary thing is that there are no reproductive barriers between them, and these pigs are constantly changing their genes in the process of constant communication, so that they have the super pigs that come after.
But at the beginning of the 21st century, the market for super pigs was shrinking, and some farmers saw no profits, so they cut down the fences where the pigs were locked and left to fend for themselves.
Winters in most parts of Canada are very cold, reaching minus 20 degrees Celsius in some places, and they generally believe that these super pigs will not survive this winter.
But it turns out that they underestimated the viability of these super pigs, and the crossbreeding of domestic pigs with wild boars allowed super pigs to have the best of both worlds.
It not only inherits the super destructive power of wild boars and strong survival genes in the wild, but also has the super large food volume and large physique of domestic pigs, and its reproductive ability is also outstanding.
Not only did they survive the winter, but they also successfully bred offspring, with six or seven piglets in a litter of super sows, and they can also have two litters a year.
Their lifespan is generally about ten years, and the longest is more than 20 years, which is not a long life in the animal kingdom, but it can't stand their super fecundity, and the survival rate of cubs is also high.
Even if a female super pig has a lifespan of only ten years, they can reproduce more than 100 small super pigs in their lifetime, and the baby super pigs will also be fertile during this period, and if such a population is not controlled, the consequences are unimaginable.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the super pigs to flood the southern part of Canada, and they continued to migrate south, gradually transitioning to the United States.
«【·“ Super Pig "Invasion of America ·] »
Ordinary wild boars have their own habitat and will not easily appear in front of people, but in the United States, these wild boars have apparently overflowed to the point that they can no longer be found in the wild.
They began to invade areas inhabited by humans, and frequently caused accidents, trampled on farmland, attacked humans, and caused economic losses of more than 10 billion yuan every year.
The size of the super pig is between 300 and 700 pounds, the face is big and the neck is thick, and the fur on the body is very hard.
In 2006, the "poisonous spinach" incident occurred in the United States, and many people were infected with E. coli because of eating this batch of spinach, and also caused the death of 3 people.
After investigation, it was found that the bacterial samples in the "poison spinach" field were the same as those collected from the intestines of super pigs.
It is very likely that after eating and drinking in the spinach field, the super pig excreted its feces in the ground, so that the spinach carried germs and then entered the human body.
In 2013, these super pigs even raided the cemetery, digging the lawn inside in a mess, and gnawing the melons and fruits in front of the deceased.
These superpigs are still scattered across the 39 states of the United States, roaming around, and are poised for further expansion.
They can advance nearly 13 kilometers a year to the north of the United States, and at the current rate, it will not be many years before they completely "occupy" the United States.
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, the United States has also taken various ways to try to curb the growth of super pigs, but with little success.
Some of the usual traps don't work at all against super pigs, they can even jump over a one-meter-high fence, have great jumping ability, and have good climbing ability.
Even if they accidentally fall into the pit laid out by the hunter in advance, they can climb up, and they can run at a speed of nearly 50 kilometers per hour, which is extremely powerful.
And they have a very high IQ, in the pursuit of many hunters, they have figured out the rules of their hunting, and will choose to come out at night to forage, and hide during the day to recuperate.
In the United States, these super pigs have almost no natural predators, and it is very difficult to eliminate them by relying solely on human strength, so that thirty years later, the number of super pigs in the United States is still growing, and it has become an invasive species that cannot be solved.
«【How can domestic pigs have the fragrance of wild boar?·】»
This kind of super pig is flooded in the United States, and many people are curious, although they are hybrids, they are still pigs in the end, can't they eat them all?
Not to mention the question of whether it can be eaten, it is already very difficult to hunt an adult wild boar alone, and even a professional hunting team cannot guarantee that it can be successfully hunted, and the danger is very high.
After that, it's a question of whether you can eat it.
Like domestic pigs in captivity, they will be fed special feed to make them fat and strong, and before they are served to the table, they need to go through several quarantine procedures to ensure that the meat is safe before they can be eaten.
When we buy pork, there are traces of blue or red seals on some pig skins, which are the factory certificates of pigs.
Compared with the breeding standards of domestic pigs, wild boars are relatively rough, pigs themselves are omnivores, meat and vegetarian are not taboo, and they will carry a lot of viruses in their bodies.
In addition to infecting domestic pigs, it is also likely to be transmitted to humans during the eating process, and even if a professional hunter catches a wild boar, it will be processed and buried to reduce the harm.
And the taste of wild boar is far inferior to that of domestic pigs, which are castrated shortly after birth, whether they are boars or sows.
The pigs treated in this way have a more docile temperament, which will greatly reduce their aggression to people, and can also make the pig's weight rise rapidly, ensuring the taste of the pork to the greatest extent.
Wild boars do not have this process, resulting in a very fishy smell of their meat and poor meat quality.
In addition, wild boars are also wild animal resources in the mainland, and they cannot be hunted at will.
Reference:
Global Times, "Foreign Media: The United States is Facing the Threat of Invasion from Canada's "Super Pig", 2023-12-3
"Canada's "Super Pigs" Flood May "Invade" the United States", 2023-12-2
The Paper, "Eurasian Wild Boars Trample the Americas, Savagely Collide with Everything and Kill an F-16 Fighter", 2020-9-11
"The Poisoned Spinach Incident in the United States May Be a Wild Boar Bringing E. Coli to the Field", 2006-10-30