Soh Kam YungDec 8

"[Mammal scientist Marcus Chua] suspected that the sudden collapse of the wild pig population (Sus scrofa) due to African swine fever would be a game changer for the greater mouse-deer (Tragulus napu), one of the world’s smallest hooved mammals.
[...]
In the year after the outbreak, the mouse-deer population quintupled to 293 individuals per sq km between 2019 and 2024."

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/how-a-fatal-virus-sparked-pulau-ubins-mouse-deer-boom

#Mammals #Ecology #MouseDeer #Singapore #WildPigs #SwineFever

How a fatal virus sparked Pulau Ubin’s mouse-deer boom

The island is now the easiest place in the world to encounter the greater mouse-deer. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times
Paul Thomas PhotographyNov 12
Hogging traffic!

#Pigs #Street #Traffic #Sow #Boar #Hog #WildPigs #Animals #Life #Photography #CanonPhotography #JamaicanPhotographer #Jamaica
Vegan FTAMar 5, 2025
In February 2025, feral pigs near Uath Lochans, Scotland, were spotted loose—now all are captured and killed. 🐗💔 👉 Read more: https://veganfta.com/2025/02/19/feral-pigs-discovered-in-cairngorms-park-in-scotland-have-been-killed/ #pigs #wildpigs #cairngorms #scotland #nationalpark
Feral Pigs Discovered in Cairngorms Park In Scotland Have Been Killed

In early February 2025, a group of feral pigs (believed to include hybrids between wild boar and domestic pigs) were spotted on the loose near Uath Lochans in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland.

Vegan FTA
Tom GambillSep 1, 2024

The pigs on the beach were interesting, but not quite worthy of the Hype. However, Big-O's for lunch was quite nice!

https://medium.com/skicats-earth-adventures/share-the-sail-bahamas-day-5-pig-beach-at-no-name-cay-c2309b828be8?sk=e48ff925e735da6afcb5688431336116
#sailing #bahamas #yacht #yachting #party #beachparty #pigs #wildpigs #noname #nonamecay

Share the Sail Bahamas: Day 5 — Pig Beach at No Name Cay

We were all in good spirits the morning after our cruiser’s party at Great Guana Cay. After our usual slow start to the morning, we again hauled anchor and headed farther north toward No Name Cay for…

SkiCat’s Earth Adventures
John ArnoldAug 17, 2024
_The Evening Post_, 18 August 1924:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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The lambing season, especially in the #Taranaki district, is fraught with the menace of the damage done each year amongst flocks by wild #pigs. Latterly the Government, through the State Forest Department, has been paying a reward of one shilling [ca. $6 today] per head for wild pigs killed in the areas most seriously affected. … [An official commented:] “Last year over 5000 wild pigs were killed—chiefly in Taranaki, but they seem to be about as numerous as ever this year, though one would think that the number killed would have made a substantial difference.“ This year, he stated, the Department was extending the region over which the reward would be payable. The system adopted was to appoint certain residents as rangers to collect snouts, the Department’s inspectors visiting the rangers at intervals. The collection of snouts, he explained, was adhered to, because if tails were allowed as proof of “kills,” they could be faked by a certain method of cutting a strip of hide.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240818.2.38
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #WildPigs #Culling #Hunting #NewZealand
Show threadSylvia WrightJan 16, 2024
"The #WildPigs in #Canada are unique because they were originally crossbred by humans to be larger and more cold-hardy than their feral cousins to the south. This suite of traits has earned them the name “super pigs”...they likely do their most severe damage through predation. Wild pigs kill and eat rodents, deer, birds, snakes, frogs, lizards and salamanders. This probably best explains why colleagues and I found in one study that forest patches with wild pigs had 26% fewer mammal and bird species than similar forest patches without pigs." #birds #birding
Global News NationalNov 22, 2023
Canada’s ‘super pigs’ threatening to invade northern U.S. states
An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states are taking steps to stop the invasion.
#globalnews #Canada #USNews #WildPigs #wildpigscanada
https://globalnews.ca/news/10107878/wild-pig-invasion-us-canada/
Canada’s ‘super pigs’ threatening to invade northern U.S. states

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states are taking steps to stop the invasion.

Global News
Global News SaskatoonNov 22, 2023
Canada’s ‘super pigs’ threatening to invade northern U.S. states
An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states are taking steps to stop the invasion.
#globalnews #Canada #USNews #WildPigs #wildpigscanada
https://globalnews.ca/news/10107878/wild-pig-invasion-us-canada/
Canada’s ‘super pigs’ threatening to invade northern U.S. states

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states are taking steps to stop the invasion.

Global News
Global NewsNov 22, 2023
Canada’s ‘super pigs’ threatening to invade northern U.S. states
An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states are taking steps to stop the invasion.
#globalnews #Canada #USNews #WildPigs #wildpigscanada
https://globalnews.ca/news/10107878/wild-pig-invasion-us-canada/
Canada’s ‘super pigs’ threatening to invade northern U.S. states

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states are taking steps to stop the invasion.

Global News
Global News CalgaryNov 22, 2023
Canada’s ‘super pigs’ threatening to invade northern U.S. states
An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states are taking steps to stop the invasion.
#globalnews #Canada #USNews #WildPigs #wildpigscanada
https://globalnews.ca/news/10107878/wild-pig-invasion-us-canada/
Canada’s ‘super pigs’ threatening to invade northern U.S. states

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states are taking steps to stop the invasion.

Global News