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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