Today's feral hog population is a hybrid of domestic pigs and Eurasian wild boars brought to North America in the early 1900s for food and sport. |
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Aside from bovines, which are involved in 90 percent of these events, horses, pigs, sheep, guanacos and wild boars have also been mutilated. |
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European boars interbred with the Polynesians' small pigs, and the offspring ran wild. |
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Maintaining structural soundness in mature boars is critical, particularly in pen mating conditions. |
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And a rusa, a lewdly mischievous pantomime horse galloped the streets to bring virility to the farmers' stallions, bulls, rams and boars. |
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In areas of highest density of the highlands there are no wild pigs and a few boars are kept for breeding. |
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In boars, pheromones found in boar saliva are known to cause the female to assume a mating position. |
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Selection of boars with initially correct skeletal structure will help to ensure their longevity. |
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Boars used in pen-mating situations need to be heavier than boars used for hand mating or for artificial insemination. |
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Wildlife includes wild boars, raccoons, skunks, and birds, such as water ouzels and belted kingfishers. |
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On the roof of the cave deft hands had painted bison, elk, horses and wild boars. |
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The hoggery is designed to raise 300 original breed Duroc, Yorkshire and Landrace sows, 30 boars and 5000 breeding pigs. |
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Of the male pigs, only Snowball and Napoleon are boars and the others are porkers. |
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It has now become a major attraction for wild elephants, bison, hyena and boars. |
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The front of the shirts has the City's heraldic emblem of rampant boars head on a turret embossed with the white rose of Yorkshire. |
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Over the years, the temple has became a famous sanctuary for tigers, deer, boars, peacocks, fowl, gibbons and horses. |
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In Northeast China, a Siberian tiger was recently found killed after it fell prey to a trap originally set by the locals for boars. |
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There are masked palm civets, bamboo rats, hog nosed badgers, boars, barking deer and giant flying squirrels, as well as cats and dogs. |
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Traditional methods of using beating and hunting dogs are also engaged to corner and hunt muntjacs, wild boars and blacknaped hares. |
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A 35-foot by 85-foot hoop building houses boars and the sows from weaning through midterm gestation. |
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The mountainous county has become a natural habitat for boars and owls, yet crops there have also been ruined by them. |
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Villagers now have to mount guard on their homes and crops at night making loud noises and letting off fireworks to scare off marauding boars. |
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Each side acquires wives for the other and redeems their spirits at death by providing their maternal kin with tusked boars and yams. |
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In some parts of America, people like to hunt deer, elk and bears, while in other areas they hunt wild boars. |
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We saw predatory birds hunting, which is not uncommon as Transylvania also hosts wild boars and wolves. |
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Hunters, in organised groups of three to four people, will be allowed to shoot mouflons, wild boars, roes, red deer and fallow deer at Christmas. |
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The government has also released deer, wild boars, pigs and goats into the park as food for the 33 known leopards there. |
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Beavers, procyons, musquashes, foxes and otters dwell in the reeds, while boars and 30 other species of mammals live on dry land. |
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The coolest webcam of the season doesn't feature birds at all, but rather wild boars. |
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On a hike into the flat hinterland, you'll see plenty of bird life, 40 species of orchid, wild boars and the endemic Andros Island iguana. |
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Many of the wild domestic dogs in Australia are mixed European domestics and so-called pig dogs, which are bred to hunt wild boars. |
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Now, having settled in nicely, the wild boars find themselves accused of everything short of satanism. |
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They raise their own gilts to keep costs down and buy replacement boars. |
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On the contrary, the best-known stockbreeder of the eighteenth century made a point of obscuring the descent of his prized bulls, rams, boars, and stallions. |
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Tigers, leopards, elephants, wild boars, and sloth bears are among the state's large mammals. |
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There are hardly hunters for walking on paths opened up by roe deers or wild boars. |
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The fauna is varied with insects, birds, rodents, grass-snakes, badgers, foxes, roe deers and wild boars. |
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Concerning fauna, are present: wild boars, roe deers, deers, foxes, lynxes, common buzzards, etc. |
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The forests are inhabited by brown bears, wolfs, deers, roe deers, capercaillies, wild boars, garden dormouses and martens. |
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In need of daily exercise, these canines have lots of energy and were bred to hunt boars. |
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Giant crowned pigeons, small wallaby kangaroos, cassowary birds, tree kangaroos, and wild boars are abundant within an hour's walk of the village. |
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Call 'em hogs, wild boars, feral pigs, whatever you choose, these porkers are second only in popularity to deer hunting for those who prefer to hunt with a handgun. |
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It is noted that there I am referring to domestic pigs, not wild boars. |
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Adults are at their lowest weight in the spring as territorial behaviour by the boars and suckling by the sows will have reduced their stored fat to a minimum. |
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Pedigree sows and boars are retained for breeding while their offspring join the food chain in keeping with the trust's motto Eat them to keep them. |
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Improvements in daily gain, feed efficiency, loin-eye area, and lower backfats occur when boars are provided the dietary protein concentration that meets their requirement. |
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If you head along this byway to the north, you'll eventually spot a pack of large boars. |
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Apart from adult boars and sows around parturition, pigs are social animals. |
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Sows are bred by mating naturally with boars or through artificial insemination. |
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You foresee the laying of a solid vertical fence against deers or boars that would perfectly fit in the landscape? |
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The abundant woods are the habitat of a variety of birds of prey, chamois, roe deers, deers, wild boars...and otters. |
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Billies are most at home on the trail of hares and wild boars, which is where you will see the best of them. |
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A prime location for hunting red and grey partridges, common and worshipped pheasants, pigeons, snipes, roe dears, wild boars and ducks. |
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The main vegetation consists of dwarf oak and kermes oak, which provide shelter for the above mentioned wild boars, roe deer's and foxes. |
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Her quarry: wild turkeys, doves, javelinas, elk, wild boars, hare, and, almost inevitable now, squirrels. |
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He has also made friends with the wild boars, monkeys, bats and land turtles who come and go. |
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As well, producers will be compensated 100 per cent for crop damaged by wild boars. |
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This Italian breed is very well suited to working in difficult terrain, especially on the trail of wild boars. |
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In the highest mountains are wild boars, foxes, badgers, hares and rabbits, which in many cases are under extinction. |
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In its hills you can find oaks, pines, junipers, as well as diverse wildlife such as partridges, hares, wild boars, and many other species. |
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Since the infection does not appear to spread easily in natural populations of free-ranging wild boars, control of the disease may be feasible. |
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Although domestic pigs are descended from wild boars, which breed seasonally, they have largely overcome their seasonal reproductive patterns. |
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Once planted, cacti produce seeds that are eaten and dispersed by birds and small mammals, and even by lizards and wild boars. |
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Also, you can encounter birds and wild animals everywhere. There are pheasants and kites, wolves and badgers and even wild boars, deer and fawns. |
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The fauna is very rich, including lynx, mongooses, wild boars, storks, eagles, herons, rabbits, chameleons and dormice. |
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It's best to use meat from young boars and cuts that are suitable for pan frying such as steaks, medallions or small pieces of meat on skewers. |
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Wild boars have for similar reasons multiplied in the mountainous interior. |
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It is acceptable to house boars individually, but they should not be permanently housed in visual and olfactory isolation from other pigs. |
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Breeding swine continues to include sows and boars kept for breeding purposes as well as pregnant gilts. |
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Market livestock include beef slaughter heifers, steers, calves, pigs other than boars or sows, and market lambs. |
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The area once rich with red sanders, sandalwood and teak trees, deer, boars, wild sheep and tigers, was widely plundered before it was declared a reserve forest. |
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Nor did I raise this news-paper to its present position as the finest in the Republic by leaning on the back-stabbing pack of boars that makes up my editorial staff. |
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The boars, by rototilling soils in search of roots and bulbs, destroy plant and animal communities and foster the invasion of alien plants. |
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The hogs, descendants of colonial-era livestock and, more recently, European wild boars introduced for sport, spread diseases such as brucellosis, can breed twice a year and, when hungry enough, will eat lambs. |
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There wolf, lynx, imperial eagle, black vulture and dense herds of large mammals such as deer, roe deer, boars, mountain goats, bighorn sheep or deer. |
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The Madan raised cattle, sheep, and goats and hunted wild boars. |
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So we recreated this in Poland with two baby wild boars. |
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It was not uncommon for medieval hunters to deliberately hunt boars during the breeding season, when the animals were more aggressive. |
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Due to Hampshire's long association with pigs and boars, natives of the county have been known as Hampshire hogs since the 18th century. |
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About a century and a half ago Galvagni, describing the fauna of Etna, told of the presence of animals have now disappeared and have become legendary for us: wolves, wild boars, deer and roe deer. |
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Galicia's woodlands and mountains are home to rabbits, hares, wild boars, and roe deer, all of which are popular with hunters. |
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The hunters who climbed the hills in search of hares or wild boars had noticed the spreading of the little trees, but they set it down to the natural spitefulness of the earth. |
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Sett maintenance is usually carried out by subordinate sows and dominant boars. |
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Wildlife includes marsh deer, monkeys, armadillos, anteaters, otters, wild boars, tapirs, jaguars, ocelots, bats, and the coypu, a South American aquatic rodent. |
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Ungulates in the area included white-tailed deer, collared peccaries, nilgai antelopes, wild boars, and cattle. |
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A contemporary of the Bloodhound, this very old breed of dogs were used in packs to hunt wolves, bears and wild boars in the 14th century by the Count of Foix. |
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The entire area is populated with wild animals that have built their nests or dens here and you can even come across tortoises and hedgehogs as well as foxes, wild boars and even weasels. |
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It has become home to hundreds of nilgais, blackbucks, wild boars and hares. |
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Large boars sometimes intrude into neighbouring territories during the main mating season in early spring. |
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A hierarchical social system is thought to exist among badgers and large powerful boars seem to assert dominance over smaller males. |
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To say they were hot, tired, dirty, odorsome, and in pain would be like saying that boars had bad breath...a large understatement. |
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The demanding nature-lover can find woods with red deer, wild boars and wild cats, as well as trout and tench in numerous runs and rivers as an indicator for an intact nature. |
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How long will ye whet spears with eloquence, Fight, and kill beasts dry-handed with sweet words? Cease, or talk still and slay thy boars at home. |
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Wild boars are occasionally raised for pâté. |
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Wild boars, the Great Grey Shrike and Wales' rarest deer are also on my list. |
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The program is meant to help the industry restructure by facilitating the reduction of the country's sows, boars and pregnant gilts by approximately 10 per cent. |
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If you are interested in spotting wild animals, Bandipur and Nagarhole wildlife sanctuaries have thick forests with elephants, samba deer, sloth bears, wild boars etc. and are ideal for trekking and bird watching. |
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The hills also shelter rabbits, foxes and even boars. |
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Commerce therefore reaffirmed its earlier determination that sows and boars are within the scope of the Order, but constitute a separate subclass. |
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In the forests, one also encounters game animals, such as red deer, roe deer and wild boars. |
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In Transbaikalia, boars are restricted to river valleys with nutpine and shrubs. |
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Should regular wild foods become scarce, boars will eat tree bark and fungi, as well as visit cultivated potato and artichoke fields. |
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In the Baltic regions, heavy snowfall can allow wolves to eliminate boars from an area almost completely. |
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Tigers have been noted to chase boars for longer distances than with other prey. |
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In some jurisdictions, it is illegal to import, breed, release, possess, sell, distribute, trade, transport, hunt, or trap Eurasian boars. |
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Several of these boars escaped, though they were quickly hunted down by locals. |
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On the cliff faces of San Juan de la Peña live birds of prey including lammergeyers, vultures and Egyptian vultures. The woods are home to badgers, wild boars, partridges and rabbits. |
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Some of the boars migrated to Tennessee, where they intermixed with both free ranging and feral pigs in the area. |
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Wild boars are known to host at least 20 different parasitic worm species, with maximum infections occurring in summer. |
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In Mediterranean Europe, remnants of mountain woodland harbour wild goats, wild sheep such as the small mouflon of Corsica and Sardinia wildcats, and wild boars. |
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They also selectively bred animals to make them fatter and tastier: this was how wild boars became pigs. GM aims to achieve similar results, but faster. |
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Introductions of alien species may be deliberate or accidental, and may be beneficial, as in the examples of corn, wheat, and domestic livestock, or damaging, such as leafy spurge, zebra mussels and wild boars. |
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According to Tacitus, the Baltic Aesti featured boars on their helmets, and may have also worn boar masks. |
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Home to leopards, Indian bisons, gibbons, slow loris, wild boars and a variety of reptiles and birds, the tangle of deep forests gives you an otherworldly ambience. |
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Analysis of 11 tetrameric STRs in wild boars for forensic purposes. |
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Dholes may also prey on boars, to the point of keeping their numbers down in northwestern Bhutan, despite there being many more cattle in the area. |
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In most areas, boars constitute only a small part of the leopard's diet. |
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Some Celtic deities linked to boars include Moccus and Veteris. |
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Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein attempted to repopulate Wadi El Natrun with boars of Hungarian stock, but they were quickly exterminated by poachers. |
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It was the largest remaining area of woodland and heath in the territories that became England and was inhabited by wolves, boars and possibly even bears. |
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Young animals are vulnerable to helminths like Metastrongylus, which are consumed by boars through earthworms, and cause death by parasitising the lungs. |
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Research to help control the disease targets wild boars in Spain, brushtail possums in New Zealand, and badgers in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. |
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Two boys, Rhett Gingyard and Gaffney Dorn, are fast friends who face adventure and danger together, from copperheads and wild boars to octopus tentacles and stone crabs. |
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In Italy and Belarus' Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, boars are the wolf's primary prey, despite an abundance of alternative, less powerful ungulates. |
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