Post ADthAr1z5pUbhj7d3o by sqeeezy@mastodon.sdf.org
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(DIR) Post #ADthAr1z5pUbhj7d3o by sqeeezy@mastodon.sdf.org
2021-11-29T08:26:52Z
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Sunday neighbourhood meeting about wild boar pest confused by unplanned arrival of boar hunters. Me in bed w coryza head keeping away from the windows as bullets are scary and agnostic. A friend went to tell them, yeah, but ffs warn us first, and then asked me to send YT link to butchering boar as she's got one to eat. Here they root up the ground for worms, destroy gardens and scare you if you come home late at night with their snorting menacing warnings.
(DIR) Post #ADthArQ5eCm6uUOsdM by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2021-11-29T15:23:43Z
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@sqeeezy Wow. Very different from here. "Wild boars" in Texas can be well upwards of 200 kg, and aggressive. They'll kill you, no fooling.
(DIR) Post #ADuG6Eq3SBcY1Uw5xo by sqeeezy@mastodon.sdf.org
2021-11-29T22:04:18Z
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@publius You're not wrong: the US has had quite a few deaths, mostly of hunters, confirming what I've been told here: if you shoot them, don't wound them as that makes them very angry. So far in Europe we've had one in Italy and one in Germany, according to what I've read. It's a global increasing nuisance. Perhaps it's just a matter of time before a porcine version of myxomatosis is developed, with what eventual consequences...
(DIR) Post #ADuKTiQW0mTIGYRN1U by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2021-11-29T22:53:22Z
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@sqeeezy Meanwhile, the German Health Ministry continues to revise downward every year the permissible level of caesium-137 in food, so they can continue to caution people every year against eating wild boars from the Black Forest due to "Chernobyl contamination". Apparently the morel mushrooms, which the piggies love to eat, are among the few organisms which concentrate caesium.My grandfather was chased up a tree by a herd of wild-ish swine, about a hundred years ago in Arkansas.