Camera Trap Blog: Meet the Bay Area's Wild Pigs.

The reality here is bristly, almost shaggy, and dark. Many wild pigs are a charcoal color, a black tinged with brown and gray, though some of them are red or patterned with stripes and spots. Like many other feral pig populations, California’s started when the Spanish imported domestic pigs during the 1700s. Allowed to roam free to forage, they eventually became feral. In the 1920s, a Monterey County landowner and avid hunter, George Gordon Moore, introduced wild boar to his ranch. Again allowed to go wherever they want, the population grew and spread, and eventually bred with domestic pigs to create the hybrid that plagues Bay Area homes today.

https://baynature.org/2019/01/23/meet-the-bay-areas-feral-pigs/

Posted on 24 de janeiro de 2019, 01:31 AM by biohexx1