wild boar


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Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come

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With these words he put heart and soul into them all, and as a huntsman hounds his dogs on against a lion or wild boar, even so did Hector, peer of Mars, hound the proud Trojans on against the Achaeans.
These they let lie, now that they had stopped their fighting; the two heroes then went on playing havoc with the foe, like two wild boars that turn in fury and rend the hounds that hunt them.
'Would not one believe I was going to meet with a wild boar, as the late M.
Within the RATHHAUS were a number of huge wild boars' heads, preserved, and mounted on brackets along the wall; they bore inscriptions telling who killed them and how many hundred years ago it was done.
The duchess dismounted, and with a sharp boar-spear in her hand posted herself where she knew the wild boars were in the habit of passing.
The carcass of a killed wild boar has given a positive result for the disease virus."A new case of African swine fever has been discovered in a wild boar found in the territory of Perushtitsa." This was announced by the director of the Regional Directorate of Forests in Plovdiv, Miroslav Dimitrov, immediately after the meeting of the Regional Epizootic Commission, quoted by BTA.
According to the government decree of March 23, 2015, the hunting season on capricorn, wild boar, quail, pigeon and doves (except roe deer) begins on the second Saturday of August and ends on the first Sunday of December.
PESHAWAR -- Wild boar, a species usually found in the sub-tropical regions of the country, has now started showing its presence in the temperate hilly terrains of Galliyat, surprising the environmentalists and locals as well.
[USA], May 8 (ANI): Wild boar also known as wild swine can be immunized against African swine fever by a new oral vaccine, claim researchers.
Guests who upload photos with any Little Wild Boar to social media (FB or IG) and receive 410 likes will be presented an edible Little Wild Boar chocolate sculpture (while supply lasts).
A wild boar scavenges for food while local residents watch at a Hong Kong park.
Wild boar (Sus scrofa), and its crosses with domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus), are considered "invasive exotic species" (SIMBERLOFF, 2013), being the second largest threat to global biodiversity (SIMBERLOFF, 2013) because they cause the extinction of native species of fauna and flora (PEDROSA et al., 2015).In Brazil, the occurrence of wild boars has been recorded in 472 municipalities (PEDROSAet al., 2015), demonstrating a high potential for invasion and adaptability (BARRIOS-GARCIA & BALLARI, 2012) and causing great damage to rural properties (PEDROSA et al., 2015).
There are no official estimates of the total population of wild pigs in Hong Kong but country park camera surveys have recorded an increase in number and a wider spread than 20 year ago 4 February - 2019: As Hong Kong prepares to celebrate the Year of the Pig, the city is facing its own peculiar porcine pickle -- a furious debate about what to do with its growing and emboldened wild boar population.
ISLAMABAD -- The Metropolitan Corporation (MCI) apprehended two groups of wild boar hunters in separate strikes, but they were fined and cleared under lenient rules and regulations.