Boar in the News - November 2010
Swedish Boar Mangles Swedish Hunter.
Or was it maybe a Norwegian boar that had immigrated illegally into Swedish woods? We will never know. But Swedish authorities complain vociferously that more and more boar from Norway cross the border to Sweden in order to make their home there.
In early November 2010 a Swedish hunter was badly mangled by a large unidentified boar according to an article in the Aftonbladet Newspaper.
A group of 10 hunters with dogs was scouring an area packed densely with saplings and undergrowth when the dogs began sounding the alarm. The dense vegetation prevented the hunters from determining why exactly the dogs were alerting. Expecting a deer or big elk the hunters were surprised and confused when a very large boar rushed at them at great speed instead. One of the hunters was 'bloodied' even before the others could come to his assistance.
Motorists on a motorway to Madrid were greatly inconvenienced when two boar used the freeway to relocate from the countryside to the nation's capital. The larger of the two was killed in a collision with a car on the A-6 in Las Rozas. The second boar gave the Guardia Civil (that's police with funny hats) a run for their money. He engaged them on a 2 kilometer (1.6 miles or so) chase down the bus lane of the freeway before he was captured.
Open Season on Wild Boar in Austria
by suggesting that local hunters should be allowed to harvest sows. This proposal is intended to stem the tide of the ever increasing number of boar that roam the Austrian countryside. While hunters are sceptical about the proposed new tactic and its effect on boar populations, animal rights activists have come out in force to oppose the wholesale slaughter of dedicated wild boar mothers.
Let us see how this one develops. Shooting females instead of their offspring does indeed affect future population growth of boar.
PJJ
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