Originally Posted by
Double Naught Spy
http://www.fieldandstream.com/articl...st-feral-swine
I thought this quote was interesting. I obviously do not know how much ranges will overlap, but I do know that notable exceptions for overlap are where you have concentrated resources, such as a crop field, where multiple sounders will use the same resource. In dry areas, the concentrating factor can be water sources.
While sounders may be "territorial," it isn't as if they are known to defend their territories.
Boars, on the other hand, are not territorial and some cruise over long distances.
I thought this quote was interesting, especially because at least part is not accurate.
Farm hogs may not crap where they eat, but ferals certainly will. I have found hog poop under the feeder on numerous occasions.
Here is a video a buddy of mine just posted showing a hog pooping right before getting to eat, but you can see him searching the ground the entire time before he gets to the food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YZH...ature=youtu.be
There are few absolutes when it comes to hogs.
I'm with Double Naught. Few rules will apply all the time, you can pick out tendencies though. From what I learned, Hog hunting in California and Europe, Feral Hogs and true Boar have many of the same tendencies. I think most of the differences are adaptations to specific areas.
I've seen grain fields covered in Hog crap. The Hogs also chew up the grain and spit the hulls out and swallow the juice. You find piles of chewed grain husk all over the place.
Two smaller sounders will join up, I've seen it numerous times. You have to figure Hogs are social, the social structure isn't always static, especially for adolescent Hogs and Boar. And the structure changes if the sounder is scattered by hunting. The orphan members may join another sounder. What I'm saying is the social structure can be fluid for various reasons. But the base unit always seems to eventually revert to the a Lead Sow, a few of her older daughters and then it kinds of pyramids in age groups, with the younger hogs being more numerous. Adolescents seem to fairly often split off from the main group and cut corners, run ahead and do what teenagers do.
I think maybe these guys were seeing what I've noticed on numerous occasions. Some places tend to have fairly large fairly static game populations and it isn't exclusive to Hogs.
Military bases often have a tendency to have large, fairly static, game populations. Amazing to see a fully mature Bull Red Deer (elk) walking though an artillery impact area. Few people out there, no hunters. They get used to all the shooting and bombs going off. Or an ammo storage facility overrun with Roe Deer. Whenever we'd go for Tank gunnery practice, I'd take my fishing pole and crossbow. I've caught some really nice Trout in a stream right under the Tank guns. Shot some nice porkers raiding the garbage cans in tent city. Not many hunters on a military base, game seems to find it more hospitable than other places, even with all the noise and bombs going off. Military bases are IMO kind of a micro habitat that various game animals adapt to. It also tells you something about the more common habitats, when the wild game prefers the bombs.