Opinion: Watch out for Super Pigs!

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/08/ [login to see] /opinion-watch-out-for-super-pigs
Just when you think we might have more than enough to worry about, something else appears: Super Pigs.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan's Canadian Wild Pig Research project have told Field & Stream that these invasive hybrids of domestic pigs and European wild boars now roam over hundreds of thousands of square miles of central Canada. And, they have begun to cross into the United States.

I'm amazed, by the way, that algorithms pushed articles from Field & Stream to my news feed. Field & Stream is an online magazine for people who hike, hunt, fish, camp and love the outdoors: essentially, everyone but me.

But, I clicked, and learned that these wild super pigs were bred by farmers to thrive in the extreme winters of the Canadian Prairies. "Large body animals survive the cold better and have better reproduction in those conditions." Dr. Ryan Brook of the Wild Pig Research Project told Field & Stream - whose site I have now bookmarked.

But larger bodies and more prolific reproduction created new problems. Progress often does. The larger pigs began to meet, date, discover mutual interests, fall in love and start families. (I am perhaps being a touch romantic here.)