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Feral hogs are bad for the U.S. economy, costing about $2 billion a year in the agricultural sector. Texas leads the country in terms of population.
The hogs are known to attack pets and humans if they feel threatened. They also reproduce at a rapid rate, as a single sow can birth up to two litters of six to eight piglets each year.
Feral hogs root around in a marsh as they feed on fiddler crabs on Ossabaw Island in Georgia. Feral hogs are a thing in Texas, too, and a recent study indicates that they might actually be helpful ...
Feral pigs have been determined to be potential hosts for at least 34 pathogens that can be transmitted to livestock, wildlife, and humans. [14] For commercial pig farmers, great concern exists that some of the hogs could be a vector for swine fever to return to the U.S., which has been extinct in America since 1978.
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, [4] common wild pig, [5] Eurasian wild pig, [6] or simply wild pig, [7] is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is now one of the widest-ranging mammals in the world, as well as the most widespread suiform. [5]
The Wild Hog Task Force estimates that hogs cause hundreds of millions of dollars of damage every year. They can destroy acres of crops or forests overnight and will sometimes eat young livestock ...
The feral pig is also a major threat to Hawaii's natural ecology. Feral pigs that were originally released or escaped from farms have been breeding in the wild and creating a large population of wild pigs in Hawaii. They have major impacts on the ecology because they are very destructive of plants and habitat and lack predators.
The invasive species is capable of destroying important habitats overnight and carries more than 30 diseases.