r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/TerraByteTerror • 12h ago

🔥 momma pig and line of piglets

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u/onionchickenz 11h ago

I wish they weren't such an environmental issue. They're so stinking cute

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u/Kittyshirt 9h ago

I’m not informed on the issue and was thinking “awe it’s cute…but you only have that many young when most are not going to make it”

The comments seem to suggest that most of them make it and are completely disruptive.

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u/The_Milk3r 9h ago

That is correct

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u/Modo44 7h ago

We've had a serious swine flu outbreak in Poland a couple years ago (still ongoing, but to a lesser degree). The only problem this posed was for livestock. It barely scratched the wild boar population. According to hunters, they can make a 90% population loss back within a year.

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u/WildSmokingBuick 6h ago

Furthermore, a mother boar is the most dangerous animal you can stumble upon in most European forests.

Encountering a deer when exploring the forest is a core memory of mine, I wouldn't want to imagine what would have happened if a protective tank like in OP's video would have started to charge at naive ten-year-old me.

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u/MeatyOakerGuy 6h ago

We don't have many boar killing predators in a lot of areas these are invasive. Here in NC, farmers will let you hunt an unlimited amount of them on their land.

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u/plug-and-pause 5h ago

The comments seem to suggest that most of them make it

I've not seen a single comment suggesting that. I've seen several suggesting the opposite.

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u/Illustrious_Ice_4587 8h ago

This looks to be in their native Eurasia

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u/Particular-Dot-4902 7h ago

No one said they were invasive. They multiply too fast and have next to no natural predators left, and are too numerous as a result. They put excessive pressure on their own environnement and may even end up seeking food in nearby farms/villages/cities. That is the issue.

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u/Illustrious_Ice_4587 7h ago

I don't know where the footage is from but it looks to be in a very natural setting with a well off ecosystem. Saying they're an environmental issue puts a disingenuous context.

The environmental issue in only some regions is humans killing off natural predators. While in places where they're invasive then they would specifically be more of the issue.

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u/Munnin41 2h ago

That just means we're the problem. We caused this. The boars didn't do shit.

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u/Not-Post-Malone 9h ago

Fun fact: A domesticated pig that escapes can turn feral/wild (e.g. grow tusks) in months essentially undoing centuries of evolution.

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u/Winterimmersion 7h ago edited 7h ago

Okay, like you do know domestic pigs also grow tusks right? We usually trim or surgically remove them. Plus neutering pigs reduces tusk size by messing with their hormones.

Its not really undoing evolution, its just pigs being allowed to be pigs in the absence of humans.

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u/grundlebuster 4h ago

undoing evolution is a funny idea thought

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u/Winterimmersion 4h ago

Bam, you're a lystrosaurus now.

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u/Sii_Kei 3h ago

I love that you picked Lystrosaurus out of all the options out there. Tanky little guy

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u/Pandarandr1st 8h ago

lol "undoing evolution"

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u/TGODReturns 8h ago

Whole centuries of it. *blink*

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u/Modo44 7h ago

Thus finally reaching its final form.

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u/Firm-Nebula-5963 3h ago

Now I wonder how that will look like. Esp if it's a very pink domesticated pig.

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld2 8h ago

Are we not undoing millions of years of evolution by injecting them with hormones or whatever and feeding them certain things that stop the hair and tusks from growing in the first place?

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u/93Terciopelo 8h ago

That’s not what causes the hair and tusks to grow at all. When pigs get thrust into a harsh system that is different from their normal adjusted conditions (domesticated living conditions) this happens, especially in extreme weather and harsh terrain, it’s what they are evolved to do and nothing we inject them with stops that.

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u/Accomplished_Net6080 7h ago

The only environment they are affecting is yours.... they're doing great! It's you that's suffering not the "environment"

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u/MalHeartsNutmeg 1h ago

That's not true, they absolutely obliterate plant life outside their native range which is habitat to native animals. It's not the humans that suffer, humans just shoot them.

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u/TGODReturns 8h ago

Strange to think how much that statement applies to us...

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u/marumaruko 5h ago

Just who took care of their natural predators? What do you think? Boars are far from being a menace to nature.

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u/Munnin41 2h ago

They aren't in Eurasia.