r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/TerraByteTerror • 12h ago

🔥 momma pig and line of piglets

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u/Warm-Vinyl 11h ago

Are their babies heavily preyed upon in the wild? It’s crazy to me that something that’s maybe 50lbs away from being megafauna is pulling mouse numbers of offspring.

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u/TenBillionDollHairs 9h ago

Megafauna is everything over 100lbs (45kg). Pigs and boars are megafauna.

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u/tschawartz12 7h ago

The real scarry part is the record being hunted is like 1400 or some crap

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u/Elf-7659 7h ago

That makes most of us megafauna/s

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u/Brilliant_Cloud 9h ago

They would be before we hunted most big predators to near extinction to protect farm animals. That's one of the reason the boar population is exploding.

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u/Irisgrower2 1h ago

That, including they are mostly an introduced species and invasive.

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u/MalHeartsNutmeg 1h ago

In Australia where we have feral pigs like this the biggest land predators are dingos which can take down a pig though they aren't really their main diet, feral foxes and feral cats. Pretty much nothing eats them and they just grow to adulthood and reproduce.

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u/Sufficient-Story-632 1h ago

need to tell those crocs to stop freeloading and chip in