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Boars out of control in Germany
18/10/08 12:03 AM

Numbers of wild boars surge
Fri Oct 3, 2008 6:59pm EDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Wild boars are breeding at a huge rate in Germany and wreaking greater havoc than in any other European country by destroying crops, killing pets and even attacking people, according to a new study.

Findings by the Hanover-based Institute of Wildlife Research show that Germany's boar population rose by 320 percent last year because of better access to food and bigger litters of young.

"It's impossible for their habitat to adapt to a surge of this degree," the institute's Gunter Sodeikat said.

Increasingly encroaching on suburban areas, boars have been reported attacking people, killing pets, and digging up corpses in cemeteries. Graveyards and gardens are being ravaged daily , police say.

The surge has also caused mounting destruction of crops and raised the risk of swine fever spreading, Sodeikat said.

According to the institute, the boar boom is exceptional in Germany, though it is not yet clear why.

"German litters have six to eight piglets on average, other countries usually only about four or five," the study said.

Unfortunately, a 72 year old hunter was recently killed by one.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,583377,00.html
The Boar War, which has been quietly raging in Germany for months, has claimed its first human victim. Late Wednesday evening in a village not far from Berlin, an enraged and hungry wild boar attacked a hunter, who then bled to death.

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Boars out of control in Germany	Story	18/10/08 12:03 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Story	01/05/10 10:10 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Mike_Bailey	01/05/10 04:44 PM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Kalunga	18/10/08 03:24 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Story	18/10/08 06:42 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Carcano	20/10/08 03:18 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Story	22/10/08 07:27 PM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	larcher	28/10/08 01:37 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	500grains	02/05/10 03:37 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Story	07/12/10 12:20 PM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Story	31/10/12 05:16 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Viking338	31/10/12 10:09 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	NitroX	31/10/12 05:11 PM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Ben	31/10/12 08:50 PM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Paatti	01/11/12 05:02 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	Der_Jaeger	28/10/08 03:51 AM
Re: Boars out of control in Germany	88MauSporter	20/10/08 11:43 AM

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