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News Article;Culling feral hogs from the sky
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<blockquote data-quote="Double Naught Spy" data-source="post: 1319091" data-attributes="member: 55410"><p>I have seen this statement in various forms and it is one of just plain ignorance and is wrong. Usually, the comment is that they don't have any "natural predators" here in the US, which is the gist of what is being stated.</p><p></p><p>Horses, cattle, domestic goats, sheep, domestic cats, chickens, pheasant, etc. are all non-native to the US and all have predators. Being non-native has nothing to do with it. Coyotes prey on them. Bears prey on them. Alligators prey on them. Mountain lions preh on them. Wolves prey on them. Predators don't care whether or not their prey is native or non-native. The problem is that we have so few predators now that will/can prey on hogs. We have so few predators that do them because we have killed off so many of them.</p><p></p><p>Wolves, smaller canids, and bears certainly eat hogs in the Old World as do big cats and crocodilians. We have some of the same types of predators, and in some cases, the same species of predators in the New World that eat hogs in the Old World. So to say that they aren't being eaten because the are non-native is just plain silly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Double Naught Spy, post: 1319091, member: 55410"] I have seen this statement in various forms and it is one of just plain ignorance and is wrong. Usually, the comment is that they don't have any "natural predators" here in the US, which is the gist of what is being stated. Horses, cattle, domestic goats, sheep, domestic cats, chickens, pheasant, etc. are all non-native to the US and all have predators. Being non-native has nothing to do with it. Coyotes prey on them. Bears prey on them. Alligators prey on them. Mountain lions preh on them. Wolves prey on them. Predators don't care whether or not their prey is native or non-native. The problem is that we have so few predators now that will/can prey on hogs. We have so few predators that do them because we have killed off so many of them. Wolves, smaller canids, and bears certainly eat hogs in the Old World as do big cats and crocodilians. We have some of the same types of predators, and in some cases, the same species of predators in the New World that eat hogs in the Old World. So to say that they aren't being eaten because the are non-native is just plain silly. [/QUOTE]
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