tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113182078732942696.post1699717124267516166..comments2024-03-12T05:38:57.339-07:00Comments on Wolves, Wolf Facts, Cougars, Cougar Facts, Coyotes, Coyote Facts - Wolves, Cougars, Coyotes Forever: Can the Feral Hog population be taken down and reduced to negligible numbers by our native carnivores?.........Thirty Nine states are in various stages of "infestation" of this prolific breeding and turf destructing animal, a descendant of Domestic Pigs set free by farmers over the generations dating back to the founding of our Country in the 1600's................ Wild pigs cause at least $1.5 billion in damages and control costs each year according to a 2007 survey, mostly to agriculture............... Dubbed the “rototillers of nature,” they dig up fields, create wallows in pastures and destroy fences.............. Researchers have found that you have to remove at least 70% of a Pig population to begin to push down their numbers and even that success ratio does not ensure that they will be removed entirely from a given region...............Poisoning Pigs using Sodium nitrite is being considered as a solution by Researchers but how to do this without causing death in other livestock and wildlife is at this point problematic at best..................Unfortunately, other than Pumas and potentially Wolves,,,,,, black bears, coyotes, bobcats, lynx, and other of our native carnivore suite are only "opportunistic" hunters of Feral Hogs,,,,,,,,,,,and they usually targeti only the more vulnerable piglets, not the adults..............Shows how exotics from other lands, whether they be animal or plant species, can throw a devastating "monkey wrench" into our natural systems, upending the "biological apple cart" and near permanently destroying biodiversity and important natural systemsCoyotes, Wolves and Cougars foreverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05594002891926526543noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113182078732942696.post-34368761601842633662015-03-18T14:47:30.543-07:002015-03-18T14:47:30.543-07:00yep,,,,,,,,,,,,but unfortunately, not enough human...yep,,,,,,,,,,,,but unfortunately, not enough human hunters to slow the tideCoyotes, Wolves and Cougars foreverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05594002891926526543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113182078732942696.post-62272787072962606212015-03-18T09:46:43.902-07:002015-03-18T09:46:43.902-07:00This is ONE reason human sport/subsistence hunting...This is ONE reason human sport/subsistence hunting should NOT be totally banned, in my opinion. Let the invasives be allowed to hunt and control other invasives!....L.B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com