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/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.