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actually diffuses a herd across wide areas. It breaks up what was previously a single, easily trackable group. The young hogs reproduce like crazy and soon you'
by causality0 4y ago
actually diffuses a herd across wide areas. It breaks up what was previously a single, easily trackable group. The young hogs reproduce like crazy and soon you've got two or three as many hogs.
If separating results in three times as much reproductive success why do these animals group up in the first place?
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- dghlsakjg 4y agoThese are feral animals, meaning their genetic stock comes from selective breeding. Their behavioral traits aren’t necessarily born of evolution.
- galangalalgol 4y agoThis is just a guess, but forming up into sounders (group name) probably was good vs predators that existed in Europe long ago, but don't exist now in the southern US. There are a few mountain lions but not enough anymore to impact the population and coyotes might take an abandoned young but even one adult would probably scare them off I think? Farmers that really want rid of them use big net/cage traps that catch a whole sounder at once, because escapees learn to spot the traps and spread the knowledge apparently. Not sure what they do with the meat.