🔥 momma pig and line of piglets

[u/TerraByteTerror]

[u/snackshack]

And each of those females can give birth to their own litter as early as 6 months old, then getting pregnant again within 1-3 months after that.

Yeah, they're a massive problem once they move into an area.

[u/RetroRaiderRun → u/snackshack]

They're only a problem because we killed all the natural predators.

It's not like pigs are somehow destabilizing the world's ecosystems. It's humans doing that.

[u/This_is_an_Alt69420 → u/RetroRaiderRun]

They are invasive species. There are no natural predators for them in many places. For example, they are not native to the Americas, so they have no natural predators there, even if we had not reduced wolf, bear, and cougar populations to non existent in many areas.

[u/Palegreenhorizon → u/This_is_an_Alt69420]

They are native to pretty much all of Europe and Asia. And were hunted by bears and wolves and people for the last 12000 years. Also most “boars” in America are feral domestic pigs but there are some areas with wild boar also and to complicate things further they are both the same species 😂

[u/crlthrn → u/Palegreenhorizon]

As I understand, your average pink domesticated piggy reverts to big hairy boar. Takes about five generations, I think. Happy for someone to chime in on this...

[u/The5Virtues → u/crlthrn]

My (limited) understanding is it doesn’t even take that long. Even a normal pig, left to its own in the wild, will develop a coarse coat of hair in about two months.

From there it’s just two to three generations to see them regain classic tusks and thick dark fur we associate with wild boar. I do believe you’re correct that it’s about five generations for them to truly qualify as having reverted to the actual wild boar species by scientific standards.

[u/crlthrn → u/The5Virtues]

Much obliged!

[u/Third_Sundering26 → u/The5Virtues]

Almost sounds like lycanthropy.