Daniel MacPhee 🥼🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦 on Nostr: Wild ‘super pigs’ from Canada could become a new front in the war on feral hogs ...
Wild ‘super pigs’ from Canada could become a new front in the war on feral hogs
“However, they likely do their most severe damage through predation. Wild pigs kill and eat rodents, deer, birds, snakes, frogs, lizards and salamanders. This probably best explains why colleagues and I found in one study that forest patches with wild pigs had 26% fewer mammal and bird species than similar forest patches without pigs.”
#WildPigs #InvasiveSpecies #Ecology #Science #FeralHogs
https://theconversation.com/wild-super-pigs-from-canada-could-become-a-new-front-in-the-war-on-feral-hogs-218899
“However, they likely do their most severe damage through predation. Wild pigs kill and eat rodents, deer, birds, snakes, frogs, lizards and salamanders. This probably best explains why colleagues and I found in one study that forest patches with wild pigs had 26% fewer mammal and bird species than similar forest patches without pigs.”
#WildPigs #InvasiveSpecies #Ecology #Science #FeralHogs
https://theconversation.com/wild-super-pigs-from-canada-could-become-a-new-front-in-the-war-on-feral-hogs-218899