Highly Intelligent and Possibly Invincible Super Pigs Are Invading America

[cigaretteman]

Getty Images

• A special breed of hybrid super pigs from Canada have started to travel south into the northern United States.
• The pigs pose a threat to native wildlife and may prove tough to eradicate.
• The spread of the pigs has only increased in recent years.

---

A hybrid breed of super pigs—a mix of a domestic pig and a wild boar—is running wild in Canada. And now they have their sights set on the United States.
Originally crossbred to help farmed pigs grow larger and tolerate the cold temperatures of Canada, a drop in the market about two decades ago led some farmers to let their hybrid pigs run free. Now they’re running very free, according to Field and Stream. The super pigs are coming south, likely heading to Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Michigan.
The problem? The super pigs are proving hard to eradicate.


“That they can survive in such a cold climate is one of the big surprises of this issue,” Ryan Brook, leader of the University of Saskatchewan’s Canadian Wild Pig Research Project, tells Field and Stream.

The cold-hardiness of the hybrid pigs means they survive well. That means other native species don’t. Brook elaborates:

“Wild hogs feed on anything. They gobble up tons and tons of goslings and ducklings in the spring. They can take down a whitetail deer, even an adult. Originally, it was like ‘wow, this is something we can hunt.’ But it’s become clear that they’re threatening our whitetail deer, elk, and especially, waterfowl. Not to mention the crop damage. The downsides outweigh any benefit wild hogs may have as a huntable species.”

https://www.popularmechanics.com/sc...Qoeru7aUr_l64bU7eKkQ1chwaTz8EJPB9vaJFYXO1fgJU

 

[Moral]

Pretty damn terrifying if you ask me. I would hate for something like this to roll up on me if I was fishing.

 

[DutchyFunStar]

Odd way to refer to MAGA Republicans....

 

[tarheelbybirth]

Wild pigs roam around my mother-in-law's house in Louisiana. Come out in the am and huge chunks of the yard have been torn up by hogs looking for crawfish.

 

[lucas80]

Hitting a deer in a car is bad enough. Hitting a wild hog will probably be worse. Heavier and lower to the ground.
F****** Canadians. Why isn't Biden doing anything about this?

 

[the24fan]

 

[GlenHawk]

Odd way to refer to MAGA Republicans....

I thought of the same joke when I read the thread title, but it was the "highly intelligent" part that made me realize it wouldn't work.

 

[MitchLL]

I might need to buy myself an AR-15 to kill these rascals.

Does anyone know if my past criminal behavior and mental health issues will prevent me from purchasing said weapon?

TIA

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

Not invincible.

 

[SoonerBeAHawk]

Wonder if it wears a cape and has an emblem on its chest?

 

[NDallasRuss]

 

[lucas80]

I might need to buy myself an AR-15 to kill these rascals.

Does anyone know if my past criminal behavior and mental health issues will prevent me from purchasing said weapon?

TIA

You are good. If a stray round takes out a kid walking home from school just say you were standing your ground against a wild pig.

 

[desihawk]

so that’s what those balloons were up to in canada

 

[Moral]

I might need to buy myself an AR-15 to kill these rascals.

Does anyone know if my past criminal behavior and mental health issues will prevent me from purchasing said weapon?

TIA

They don't encourage hunting them because they will scatter and go into hiding. Unless you are looking to judas pig them and kill the whole nest in a blaze of fury. I also recommend something with a little more stopping power.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

You are good. If a stray round takes out a kid walking home from school just say you were standing your ground against a wild pig.

Your wife is in trouble is trouble.

 

[lucas80]

They don't encourage hunting them because they will scatter and go into hiding. Unless you are looking to judas pig them and kill the whole nest in a blaze of fury. I also recommend something with a little more stopping power.

A Javeline missile into a herd of them?

 

[goldmom]

I might need to buy myself an AR-15 to kill these rascals.

Does anyone know if my past criminal behavior and mental health issues will prevent me from purchasing said weapon?

TIA

You can borrow mine. This is totally justifiable.
Seriously - wild hogs are no joke. They’re a real problem here in Florida. The only good thing they’ll do is eat snakes and little gators.

 

[IowaPackFan]

Mmm, wild and intelligent bacon

 

[IowaPackFan]

Seriously - wild hogs are no joke. They’re a real problem here in Florida. The only good thing they’ll do is eat snakes and little gators.

That doesn’t sound like a problem to me.

 

[goldmom]

That doesn’t sound like a problem to me.

If they stay in the swamps I agree, but sometimes they’ll come into neighborhoods that are near a piece of land that’s been cleared so more apartments or subdivisions can be built and then it’s scary.

 

[DutchyFunStar]

I thought of the same joke when I read the thread title, but it was the "highly intelligent" part that made me realize it wouldn't work.

Like I said, odd....