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Mutant ‘super pig’ population spirals out of control in Japanese nuclear fallout zone
NY Post ^ | 5/19/26 | Zoe Hussain

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Outdoors; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: fallout; japan; nuclear; pigs

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Makin' bacon.
1 posted on 05/21/2026 6:58:20 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Porkzilla.

L


2 posted on 05/21/2026 6:59:51 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Extra chewy? 😳


3 posted on 05/21/2026 7:00:45 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Libloather
It's the hedgehogs you need to watch out for.


4 posted on 05/21/2026 7:01:00 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Lurker

5 posted on 05/21/2026 7:01:31 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Libloather

FPV drones


6 posted on 05/21/2026 7:04:36 PM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: Libloather

7 posted on 05/21/2026 7:05:15 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: rktman

... and hot stuff...


8 posted on 05/21/2026 7:07:13 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: Libloather

So THIS is how you create a R(h)INO


9 posted on 05/21/2026 7:08:04 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: dfwgator

The Government has been experimenting
with Pig Men since the 50’s!


10 posted on 05/21/2026 7:08:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Libloather
This could save them from the Muslims.

We should import some and let them loose in Minneapolis, Detroit, etc.

11 posted on 05/21/2026 7:08:38 PM PDT by Mogger ( 7th generation Vermonter, refugee in New Hampshire hoping NH remains sane.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“It’s the hedgehogs you need to watch out for.”

DINSDALE!

CC


12 posted on 05/21/2026 7:12:19 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: Libloather

Domestic Pigs return to feral wild Pigs after only two breeding generations. The Fukushima thing had nothing to do with it.


13 posted on 05/21/2026 7:14:42 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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READ THE STORY.

It’s got nothing directly to do with Fukashima.

When the locals fled the city, some of their domestic swine escaped and have interbred with the local wild swine. The result is a mutant that retains the domestic hogs’ high-speed, fast-population growth reproductive cycle, so there’s a wild hog population boom going on.


14 posted on 05/21/2026 7:15:34 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Mogger

Good idea. Air drop them into mogunappolis.


15 posted on 05/21/2026 7:16:56 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Libloather

Pork belly sushi


16 posted on 05/21/2026 7:19:24 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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That’s not Battersea Power Station, is it?


17 posted on 05/21/2026 7:20:02 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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“...Mutant ‘super pig’ population spirals out of control
in Japanese nuclear fallout zone...”
- - - - -
So... it is NOT really a “Super Pig” population,
But just a super “Pig Population”...

Right?


18 posted on 05/21/2026 7:21:52 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th ( I am obsessed with not being obsessed with anything.)
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Not a problem. Just hire Boudreaux and Thibodeaux from South Louisiana Lafourche Parish, Smith and Jones from East Texas, Gonzoles and Lopez from the Texas border and the best damn black cooks the South has. They make the best BBQ. Soon Japan would have the best damn road side BBQ in the world. Give the shooters Give them all scoped Remington 700 rifles. Japan would soon have a shortage of wild pigs.

Relative to BBQ in all seriousness some of the best I have eaten here in Texas roadside joints has been from black cooks. It is delicious. When you see expensive cars parked outside these joints, you know the food is good.


19 posted on 05/21/2026 7:28:44 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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20 posted on 05/21/2026 7:30:03 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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