A fast, aggressive, animal species, which is believed to be one of the most destructive invasive animal species in the United States, is spreading to more and more of the country as time goes by, and now they've been spotted in Wisconsin.
According to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, these invasive species weigh between 75 and 250 pounds on average, but some can get twice as large. The animals can reach 3 feet in height and 5 feet in length and run up to 30 miles per hour.
The animal species in question are feral swine, otherwise known as wild boar, wild hogs, or razorbacks, and having them in your state is really bad news.
Feral swine can cause tremendous damage to agriculture, including row crops, forestry, livestock, and pasture. They also pose great risks to human health and safety, by harboring and transmitting diseases to people and pets and by causing collisions with vehicles. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, hogs cause approximately $2.5 billion in damages each year by rooting and trampling farm and forest lands, eating crops, and transmitting diseases and parasites.
If that weren't bad enough, according to reports, feral swine living in the United States have been known to attack without provocation and fatally injure human beings. There have been over 100 documented attacks by feral pigs on human beings in the United States between the years 1825 and 2012, with five of the attacks ending in human death.
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