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Article: Fat Chance.(feral swine hunting )
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- Outdoor Life
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Byline: Bob Butz
WILD HOGS ARE SPREADING ACROSS AMERICA. GREAT, RIGHT? NO. HERE'S WHY THE PIG EXPLOSION IS TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
They run wild on every continent except Antarctica. Twice as smart as the average bird dog, more wary than a whitetail, they're big, tough, prolific breeders that are now spreading across the United States "like four-legged fire ants." That's how one Texas biologist described them at a national conference on the animals held this year. He was talking about wild hogs.
"There are only two kinds of states in America," Billy J. Higginbotham continued, "the ones that have wild hogs now and those that will be plagued by ...