Watch what boars do when they think no one's looking
There is a lot going on when we aren't on the spot. ..
A mob of pigs attack a lambing ewe and kill the lamb
This is another Spanish video but this time we can see a mob of pigs targeting a ewe and lamb before killing the lamb and fighting over the carcase.
Boar stalks a lamb to eat...
A Spanish video uploaded to Facebook by Juan Manuel Muñiz Calviño. Interesting study of a boar disturbing a yarded mob of sheep to isolate a lamb to eat.
eUROPEAN WILD BOAR BATTLES A FALLOW BUCK
A video posted to Facebook by Barbara Vanzelli on January 6, 2020. It's from her segugi nel cuore page (roughly translated it's Italian for Hounds in the Heart). Worth a look. Fallow bucks are game fighters. In Australia there are plenty of tales of them fight and beating reds, bulls and horses. Did not expect this result, however.
Boars fighting for dominance
Great short video by Steve Colley of Inverell that did the Facebook rounds in 2017. As well as ripping one another's body, boars will grab ears and split them or 'ringbark' them. The 'rung' ears wither and fall off afterwards. Note in the video how oblivious the boars are to a vehicle beside them. There's no sound on this video but th engine of the 4WD is running and Steve is talking. At the end he yells and whistles at the pigs and the bigger boar breaks away.
Boars mark their territory by rubbing glands on the ground
This big fella was caught on a game cam marking just inside a hole in a fence separating grass country from a sorghum crop.
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Same boar at the same hole in the fence but this time marking again coming out of the sorghum crop and into the grass country.
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Boars mark their territory by rubbing glands on the ground
Different boar caught on a series of game camera pics during the same thing near a popular dam in a blackberry infested gully, well above sea level.
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This boar was caught on camera by Neal Roberts. Same scent marking behaviour but a better view from the front. Note too the caution shown by the boar when compared to the behaviour of the piglets and sow.
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European Boar hunts and catches grown sheep to eat
Great footage of a wild boar hunting and catching a sheep. We know they do it and I've seen one catch and kill a lamb but this is the only footage I have seen of a boar, chasing and catching a grown sheep to eat.
And a local boar Caught in the aCT
A Facebook post of mine from May 1, 2016
Another interesting boar this morning. No size, he'd be lucky to dress 50kg, but it's the first boar I've seen kill a lamb. I've seen then eat lambs but never kill and eat one. We all know they do it but it was an education to see it unfold in front of me just after dawn. I'd spotted him on another hill about a km away walking near the sheep. I had the binoculars on him to work out how I was going to cut him off if he ran when I saw him rush a lamb, grab it by the chest and start eating it. If ever there was a boar I was going to catch it was this one. Short version, closed the gap, he ran and squatted in some darby's oats grass and rushed when the dog got close. Bit of a tussle, bit of damage and it was done. Not the biggest boar I've caught by a long shot but one of the most satisfying.
Edit: the photo of the lamb was to show how much had been eaten in the time it took me to cover a kilometre to get to the boar...
Boar carrying off an entire goat
A video found on Facebook I think. Western NSW. It is easy to underestimate the power of a big boar pig.
Threat and dominance behaviour
Another found video, not one of mine but interesting for its recording of clear threat and dominance behaviour.
Boar ignores dingo at bull bait site
Boar is unfazed by the presence of a dingo waiting for its turn on a dead scrub bull. This one is from our Gulf trip in 2009.
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