We’ve been way “Disney-fied.” A lot of people think the world is a Disney movie, an amusement park, or a petting zoo.
I’ve noticed that just about every wildlife program anthropomorphizes animals. (”The mother coyote is worried that she won’t be able to feed her babies.” Really? Coyotes worry? How do you know?) A lot of people seem to believe that animals really are people, too.
I find hogs to be scary, myself. I have a relative who was bitten on the face by a hog when he was a child. He was literally scarred for life, emotionally as well as physically. My ex’s late mother had an aunt who had one arm amputated below the elbow following a hog attack. And those were domestic hogs, not feral ones.