7 October 04

Urban Swine

Part of my dissertation was about mapping the distribution of feral pigs in California. But I had no idea that wild boars could be an urban species. It seems that Berlin has a population of about five to seven thousand wild boars, their numbers increasing two-fold after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And they cause over 400 traffic accidents each year. After all, I don’t see a crosswalk in this picture.

Posted by at 08:23 PM in Nature and Place | Link |

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