Posted on 05/21/2026 6:58:20 PM PDT by Libloather
A mutant super pig population has spiraled out of control — thanks to their inherited, rapid reproductive cycles — in the ghost towns of a nuclear fallout zone in Japan, according to reports and researchers.
The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, spurred by a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, forced roughly 164,000 people to flee from their homes to escape the radiation zone.
Amid the chaos, domestic pigs escaped into abandoned farmland and began interbreeding with indigenous feral boars — creating a mutant pig population with alarming genes, Popular Science reported.
Researchers from Fukushima and Hirosaki Universities discovered through DNA analysis that the hybrid progeny inherited the maternal domestic pig’s rapid reproductive cycle, allowing populations to quickly multiply, unlike that of the boar, according to findings from the Journal of Forest Research.
“While it has been previously suggested that hybridization between rewilded swine and wild boars can contribute to population growth, this study demonstrates — through the analysis of a large-scale hybridization event following the Fukushima nuclear accident — that the rapid reproductive cycle of domestic swine is inherited through the maternal lineage,” Professor Shingo Kaneko of Fukushima University said in a statement.
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Shoot, I was looking for mega-pigs tearing up Tokyo like Godzilla.
Otoh, bacon prices may yield a pork bonanza.
Oh, no
There goes Tokyo
Go go Porkzilla!
,,, isotopes are always better with a glaze on.
their bacon glows in the dark when it’s cooked, which can be handy on those early winter mornings when you’re only half awake trying to quickly get out of the house to work on time ...
If you are a hunter a big Texas Boar is not to be taken lightly. It can be several hundred pounds of fury that can outrun you with ease and razor sharp tusks. It can kill you though this is rare.
Then there are the insane hunters that kill with dogs and a knife. I do not condemn them but question their sanity. If someone is injured my sympathy is with the dogs. They are just doing what they were trained to do.
Growing the next generation of politicians to slip into America
Happening here, in Europe, dam boars are taking over the world.
They should invite David Ellis of YouTube fame to demonstrate his hog traps for them.
Well, that version of the story won’t get nearly as many clicks.
Completely agree.
It’s not even a mutant. It’s normal reproduction. Like saying a child is a mutant cause it inherited certain characteristics from one of the parents.
G*dd*mn clickbait headline.
I wish the moderator would not post anything which is clearly meant to generate clicks. “Super pig”, mutant...radiation...all the buzzwords...bombshell...”so and so destroys so and so”...
Doesn’t LOOK like it. (I was there a couple of years ago). :)
We lived on top of a mountain in Big Sur, CA for a year. There were wild boar there,, very dangerous if you happened to run into them, thus we had two dogs so each of the kids could go with one for walks. If boar came even slightly close, the dogs, Welch Corgis, would chase them away. Herding dogs. Small but mighty.
Uh, no thanks.
Regards,
“Mutant ‘super pig’ population spirals out of control in Japanese nuclear fallout zone”. Did you know pigs are as smart as dogs? It’s true, I knew this fellow in El Capitan who trained his pig to bark at strangers.
No, it doesn’t. I was thinking of the Pink Floyd album cover, of course.
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