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Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?
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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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Bruh they'll fuck you up. They're vicious.
Don't be an ass to wildlife and wildlife will respect you.
This is not true. There are squirrels who relentlessly mock me and I have done nothing to deserve it.
Delicious*
Die 🤗
(Edit) Apologies, this was needlessly abrupt. I will amend my statement to:
I wish the same fate on you that you wish on other sentient beings.
About the only thing they are good for is shooting.
How's their aim?
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You would be vicious too if someone was hunting you with dogs and a rifle. I have encountered several wild boars in Japan and gotten close enough to touch them. Try giving them snacks like you would a cute kitty and see if they don't respond just like a cute kitty does. They mirror our behavior.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_boar
That is not what we have here.
We have these
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_pig
I concede that feral pigs and feral dogs can be much more dangerous than their unaltered natural counterparts boars and wolves. Here is a video from one of my trail cameras of a Japanese boar mama and her babies. I have never met any females with babies in the woods. I have only met male boars that were by themselves. I always announce my presence by repeating a little chant while I walk. It lets the animals know I'm coming and that I'm not trying to hunt them. If they don't want me to see them, they have plenty of time to get away. If an animal runs into me, I don't want the animal to be surprised. That's the worst possible meeting. https://spectra.video/w/n8XJxxYPK9pJqBcjAuQxQV
Again, Japanese boars are much much smaller than the boar we have here. Think game of thrones dangerous. They get to 400-600lbs and they're practically solid muscle and have pretty much no natural predators, the ones in Japan are tiny compared to the ones here in the usa and parts of South America.
"Without provocation"? We've fucked wildlife over so much they probably think they're defending themselves.
I wouldn't feed them. Same as alligators or bears. Feeding them is how you get them killed.
Just watch from a very far distance until they leave. Have respect.
I don't feed them specifically or directly. I have trail cameras in the forest and I leave my kitchen scraps in front of the cameras. The boars get it sometimes but usually the tanuki (Nyctereutes viverrinus) get to it first. The two times I got close enough to touch boars were both surprise encounters. First time I was cleaning up trash under a bridge and the boar was eating mulberries off the ground. The noise from the cars on the bridge kept him from hearing me and he must have been upwind because he didn't smell me either. I was looking down to pick up trash while walking. Something big jumped up and ran away from me. I jumped too. I looked and saw a boar's ass running. He turned around and came back toward me. I showed him my palms, talked calmly and backed away slowly as he got too close. I figured out that I meant him no harm and then moved about 100 feet away and went back to eating. I kept picking up garbage. We could see each other but respected each others space. The second time I was feeding bread to ducks with my daughter and she had her shoes off to soak her feet in the river. She was sitting on a rock. A boar burst out of the underbrush next to her and came up and stole her shoe. He ran upriver with it, dropped it and came back to us. He started eating the bread I was trying to feed to the ducks. I just dropped all the bread on the ground and my daughter and I backed away from him. He seemed like he wanted to play, but I wasn't going to risk him getting aggressive or over-familiarizing him with humans and putting him in danger. I'm not sure if it was the same boar both times or two different boars.