Feral hogs typically look very similiar to domestic hogs, but often times have more variation in color and coat pattern. Although color can vary between white, red, and brown for recently hogs that have recently gone feral, the most common color in established feral hog populations is black. This is probably because predators, even hunters, select for easily spotted animals. In addition, because feral hogs are often times active at night, black blends well.
A mature feral hog may reach a shoulder height of 32 to 38 inches and weigh from 100 pounds up 400 pounds. Male hogs, or boars, are generally larger than the females, or sows. Hogs that are very large in size are generally not far removed from domestication, meaning that individual, its parents, or grandparents were likely domestic hogs.
Wild hogs are omnivores, generally categorized as opportunistic feeders, and typically consume between 3% and 5% of their total body mass daily. They exhibit a generalist diet consuming a variety of food sources which allows them to thrive across a wide range of environments. Throughout their range their diet is mostly herbivorous, shifting seasonally and regionally among grasses, mast, shoots, roots, tubers, forbs, and cacti as resource availability changes
Wild hogs have been listed as one of the top 100 worst exotic invasive species in the world. In 2007, researchers estimated that each wild hog carried an associated (damage plus control) cost of $300 per year, and at an estimated 5 million wild pigs in the population at the time, Americans spent over $1.5 billion annually in damages and control costs. Assuming that the cost-per-wild hog estimate has remained constant, the annual costs associated with wild pigs in the United States are likely closer to $2.1 billion today.
Most damage caused by wild hogs is through either rooting or the direct consumption of plant and animal materials
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Men are awful lol, i feel so bad for straight women who have to deal with us
It has its moments but apparently dudes will come in and do some buckwild shit like cum on the dvds or call and jack off while asking about toys which seems like it’d get tedious fast.
Anyone else get fucked up thinking about what a missed opportunity the past year has been?
We could’ve been experimenting with a $2k monthly ubi. Built a robust unemployment safety net and finally done M4A so anyone who gets sick wouldn’t have had to deal with medical debt.
If we had followed China and friends and locked down, maybe we could’ve gotten to work on upgrading transport infrastructure. Fixing roads and bridges and running TRAINS everywhere.
We could’ve emptied the prisons of nonviolent offenders. They could’ve had free college and jobs waiting for them. We could’ve given them and every homeless person a home. Could’ve brought the troops home too. From everywhere. Who the fuck wants to fight during a global pandemic?
We’d have come out of quarantine after some months into a country several magnitudes better than the one we shut down. It blows my mind that no one in mainstream politics or media talks about this.
Praising frontline workers while hosting a super spreader event.
How has America not killed itself off yet ?