Fun fact: When hunting, ye olde hunters would use a specific type of spear tip for hunting boar where it would be a regular spear point but had a small cross guard at the blade's base to keep the boar from rushing through the pole past the blade while it was impaled
As a Texan, I can verify that nothing is more terrifying than hearing a group of feral pigs rooting around near you. A lone hog is bad enough but get a whole sounder together and hungry/pissed off and they fear nothing and no one. I've seen jaguars and bears turn tail when a bunch of wild hogs get mad.
The thing about geese and swans is that they're glass cannons and they depend heavily on intimidation. They're birds, they have brittle bones. I was attacked by a Canada goose and one solid punch was more than enough to send it packing, and I'm a pretty wimpy guy. Swans are considerably worse, but if you fight back you're gonna survive. I don't know how easy it is to intimidate a swan, but if you get big and scream a goose or turkey will think twice.
@fruitpunchsamurai4837swans are territorial, probably they just didn't think you are on their ground. But swans are known to literally terrorise local parks with ponds.
Couple weeks before Christmas, I'm looking out into my backyard where I have a perfect view of our pear tree, and I see this big grey/white bird and think "omg that's a partridge!" Yes - a Partridge in my freaking Pear Tree. But I looked it up and it was really too good to be true. It was actually a grouse.
Alright lets just put all the swans, all the boars, all the geese, all the grizzlies and all the honey badgers in the world in an arena and let them go absolutely ballistic for a span of 7 days and 7 nights. Still pretty sure the boars would win and the grizzlies would probably take out themselves but by god would it be absolute chaos.
not entirely sure, nor do I really know how to verify that information, but for the most part wild boars are pretty closely related to the pigs we have. from what I understand, the gene pool for boars out here is a combination of the various pig varieties we do have (e.g. the most common in the states, the american yorkshire, as well as many others) and the Eurasian wild boar. Given that they are basically the same species, probably pretty pure? The big thing though is that if any domesticated pig escapes, their next generation just *straight up becomes a eurasian wild boar* if exposed to other boars. probably through breeding. Like, maybe not genetically but practically speaking you cannot tell them apart so pigs escaping is actually a really big issue in the states
A reminder that Boars and Moose are the only creatures who actively scale with you in Nier Automata, all the way to 99.
Fun fact: When hunting, ye olde hunters would use a specific type of spear tip for hunting boar where it would be a regular spear point but had a small cross guard at the blade's base to keep the boar from rushing through the pole past the blade while it was impaled
ah yes Legendary Winged Boar Spear
As a Texan, I can verify that nothing is more terrifying than hearing a group of feral pigs rooting around near you. A lone hog is bad enough but get a whole sounder together and hungry/pissed off and they fear nothing and no one. I've seen jaguars and bears turn tail when a bunch of wild hogs get mad.
If you've ever watched Princess Mononoke, they're stubborn, resilient, destructive and pig-headed.
The thing about geese and swans is that they're glass cannons and they depend heavily on intimidation. They're birds, they have brittle bones. I was attacked by a Canada goose and one solid punch was more than enough to send it packing, and I'm a pretty wimpy guy. Swans are considerably worse, but if you fight back you're gonna survive. I don't know how easy it is to intimidate a swan, but if you get big and scream a goose or turkey will think twice.
My high-school had a lake with swans near it and they were all pretty chill outside of mating season, maybe cause they grew up around people?
@fruitpunchsamurai4837swans are territorial, probably they just didn't think you are on their ground.
But swans are known to literally terrorise local parks with ponds.
So boars are just real life bullfango
I hate bullfango with all my being. My combo got broken, my frustrations are spoken
Couple weeks before Christmas, I'm looking out into my backyard where I have a perfect view of our pear tree, and I see this big grey/white bird and think "omg that's a partridge!" Yes - a Partridge in my freaking Pear Tree. But I looked it up and it was really too good to be true. It was actually a grouse.
Alright lets just put all the swans, all the boars, all the geese, all the grizzlies and all the honey badgers in the world in an arena and let them go absolutely ballistic for a span of 7 days and 7 nights. Still pretty sure the boars would win and the grizzlies would probably take out themselves but by god would it be absolute chaos.
Do you in the Usa even have "pure" wild boars, like in europe? I thought at most you guys had wild pigs
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@DefinitelyNotBender thanks mate couldn't figure that out myself.
not entirely sure, nor do I really know how to verify that information, but for the most part wild boars are pretty closely related to the pigs we have.
from what I understand, the gene pool for boars out here is a combination of the various pig varieties we do have (e.g. the most common in the states, the american yorkshire, as well as many others) and the Eurasian wild boar. Given that they are basically the same species, probably pretty pure?
The big thing though is that if any domesticated pig escapes, their next generation just *straight up becomes a eurasian wild boar* if exposed to other boars. probably through breeding. Like, maybe not genetically but practically speaking you cannot tell them apart so pigs escaping is actually a really big issue in the states