Environment & Energy
Related: About this forum'Super pigs' can have piglets at only 3 months old. They're terrorizing US, experts say
Its like something thats out of a terrifying movie a wild pig population thats growing at such a rapid pace, experts are referring to it as a feral swine bomb that can go off any minute.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the invasive species of wild pigs has a population of at least 6 million and is growing quickly.
The wild pig population has expanded from 17 states to at least 39 over the last three decades and causes an estimated $2.5 billion in damage a year, The Atlantic said.
Ive heard it referred to as a feral swine bomb, said Dale Nolte, manager of the National Feral Swine Damage Management Program at the USDA to The Atlantic. They multiply so rapidly. To go from a thousand to two thousand, its not a big deal. But if youve got a million, it doesnt take long to get to 4 [million], then 8 million.
The problem stems from the fact that most of the wild pigs are a mixture of domestic breeds and European wild boar.
The problem with the hybrids is you get all of the massive benefits of all of that genetics, said Ryan Brook, a University of Saskatchewan biologist to the Atlantic. It creates what wed call super-pigs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/super-pigs-piglets-only-3-001014892.html
Rule of Claw
(500 posts)I could handle that.
All the bacon they want to produce, I can eat my share of.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)along with the plague, the murder hornets, locusts, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and Trump.
2naSalit
(86,508 posts)volcanoes and earthquakes. Just sayin'.