“...In the early 1900s, several animals escaped from their enclosures at a hunting preserve at a mountain known as Hooper Bald in North Carolina, and they mated with feral hogs in the surrounding area. That population then spread into other areas of the Southeast, including Georgia, according to research done by Dr. Jack Mayer of the Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken, S.C...”
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Dr. Jack Mayer is an idiot when he says,
“animals escaped and they mated with feral hogs”
where the hell does he think those feral hogs came from?
It is just plain stupid for him to say that all wild hogs are a result of a single incident.
It only takes a generation or so for domestic pigs to go feral in the wild.
There have been literally thousands of times that pigs have gotten loose from a farm and bred in the woods and swamps and developed into feral hog populations.
The article is not clear as to exactly where this incident occurred in the Lithonia area.
I am only one county away from there.
I have seen that article before and I believe he was
talking about Russian or German wild boar that mated
with feral hogs. They had been brought over to a
hunting preserve and got loose.
Didn’t some of them mingle with Russian Boars that were imported in some areas during the old days?