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The Animals That Aren't Dogs or Cats Thread

Finn said:
It's in Israel, where there has been wild boar for millennia.
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I'm assuming they can't be to much an issue there if things have managed to survive with them for that long.
Ar-Pharazon said:
We have those in the US too. It's the generations of wild "farm type" pigs and the hybrids of the two that are the issue.

Again, IDK if Australia had wild boars or not to begin with for the pigs to breed with.
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I think I think I remember seeing something talking about pigs in Australia, and I think said they weren't native, but I'm not positive.
I know that introduced species are a major issue in Australia and New Zealand because they had such a unique isolated ecosystem that can't handle new things being introduced.
Kai "the spy" said:
On the wild boars, it is a problem in a lot of parts of Germany, and has been for years. And during that same time, hunters, farmers, politicians and the media have been fearmongering about wolves, who have started showing up again in Germany in the past decade, and want the threshold for allowing to shoot wolves to be lowered or taken out completely. They have spread a lot of misinformation and even resurrected old myths about how supposedly dangerous wolves are to humans, and farmers lament how they attack their livestock (but don't mention how they themselves cut corners on protective fences and guard dogs).
And wolves, if they were allowed to actually properly be repopulating Germany, would be the best, the natural way of regulating the populations of animals like the wild boars.
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This is another thing that drives me crazy with wild animals, they'll wipe out the predators and then get mad because all the prey animals are out of control. But the whole thing would have been fine if they had not wiped out the predators. I've heard stories about how much wiping out and then reintroducing wolves in Yellowstone completely changed the entire ecosystem.
 
JD said:
I'm assuming they can't be to much an issue there if things have managed to survive with them for that long.

I think I think I remember seeing something talking about pigs in Australia, and I think said they weren't native, but I'm not positive.
I know that introduced species are a major issue in Australia and New Zealand because they had such a unique isolated ecosystem that can't handle new things being introduced.

This is another thing that drives me crazy with wild animals, they'll wipe out the predators and then get mad because all the prey animals are out of control. But the whole thing would have been fine if they had not wiped out the predators. I've heard stories about how much wiping out and then reintroducing wolves in Yellowstone completely changed the entire ecosystem.
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There's a BBC Earth, or one of the other BBC channels on YT I watched a video a couple weeks ago, yet can't find. It's about the cassowary becoming endangered due to the pigs eating everything.

If you googled just "wild pigs", you would find a large number of stories and studies on the subject.
 
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