Saturday 2 December 2023

Super Pig,

no not the one that flew over Battersea Power station!


I am talking about the ones coming from Canada to America, with out a visa! Northern US states are preparing for an invasion of incredibly intelligent and highly adaptable ‘super pigs’ that threaten to spill over the border, and here is the worry, these new feral pigs combine the survival skills of the wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine, not only do they devastate crops, they also feed on animals of all sizes, from quails and wild turkeys to deer and elk, and spread deadly diseases like the African swine flu and strains of influenza that can affect humans,

the so called 'Super pigs' are so well-established in Canada these days that their eradication has become virtually impossible, and authorities are more focused on containment, their large size up to 300kg (661lbs), allows them to survive at temperatures as low as -50 degrees Celsius, Canada’s super pig problem began during the 1980s, when the country began encouraging farmers to raise wild boar, but, when the market collapsed in 2001, many of these farmers simply cut their fences loose and released the pigs into the wild out of frustration, “All the experts said at that time: ‘Well, no worries. If a wild pig or a wild boar ever escaped from a farm, there’s no way it would survive a Western Canadian winter. It would just freeze to death.'” Professor Brook said. “Well, it turns out that being big is a huge advantage to surviving in the cold.” They are so widespread and so abundant, that certainly as late as 2018 or 19 I stopped saying that eradication was possible, they’re just so established,” Professor Ryan Brook told The Guardian. “They’ve definitely moved in, and they’re here to stay.” it seems strange that no one can stop them but there it is, hopefully everyone will develop a taste for Super Pig burgers! seriously, how else will the threat they pose be tackled?


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