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Sport hunting doesn't help keep the population down though: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-has-a-feral-hog-problem-hunting-them-makes-it-worse/ ht

• pixl97 4y ago
  When I was younger my friends and I used to trap and kill dozens of them at a time. The sheer number of hogs and the rate at which they breed down in the river bottoms is insane. Not sure how you'd ever get rid of them, they are pretty clever and once you use a trick unsuccessfully on them they tend to avoid it.
  • Mountain_Skies 4y ago
    Biological warfare, in one form or another, might be the only way, but that comes with risks that are probably unacceptable, even in light of the amount of damage they cause.
    • HarryHirsch 4y ago
      Put lions in - wolves are too small, and jaguar won't touch them, jaguar is solitary but pigs come in packs.
      • ETH_start 4y ago
        Lions can't handle the Canadian climate, Siberian tigers can, and they are proficient boar hunters.
  • ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    >Not sure how you'd ever get rid of them Same how Australia fought the Emus in The Great Emu war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wms8ZEtVQhg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wms8ZEtVQhg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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• psychlops 4y ago
  It's nothing that increased farming won't solve. Farmers will efficiently eradicate any pest in their designated areas.
  • kyleabenzleeee 4y ago
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• cryptonector 4y ago
  | But if you just shoot one, the rest scatter. But you don't shoot one. You shoot most of them. That requires thermal optics, semi-automatic rifles, high capacity magazines (and lots of them), ATVs or helicopters or well-planned stands with a good view of a clearing that hogs might hang out in at night.