How to escape from wild boars in the wild? Can you avoid danger by playing dead?

The destructive power of wild boars is quite amazing. A small group of wild boars can destroy several acres of crops in one night. At the same time, wild boars are the most aggressive animals in the mountains and forests. Once they encounter people, wild boars will take the initiative to attack people. In recent years, with the gradual restoration of the ecology, wild boars have also increased in some places. Therefore, in recent years, incidents of wild boars ruining crops and hurting people have occurred frequently.

So, how to deal with dangerous wild boars in the wild? Can you avoid danger by pretending to be dead? Let's discuss these two issues together.

The strength of wild boar

In the Northeast, there is a saying "one pig, two bears and three tigers", in which pigs refer to wild boars, and the main reason why wild boars, as omnivorous animals, can rank in front of carnivorous bears and tigers is to correct people's active aggression.

Under normal circumstances, when wild animals see people, as long as people do not take the initiative to provoke them, they usually do not attack, but wild boars are different. From the reports of wild boars attacking people in recent years, many people attacked by wild boars are in the fields. Work, in the case of no defense, was overturned by the wild boar, and then bitten frantically, showing the ferocity of the wild boar.

Wild boars are also known as mountain boars. The fat and white pigs that we commonly eat are domesticated from wild boars. They are widely distributed in Eurasia (now they have been introduced to the Americas and flooded in the United States), with As many as 20 subspecies are differentiated. In my country, except for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Inner Mongolia and the northwest desert, they are almost all over the country and are the most common large wild animals.

The body size of wild boars varies greatly in different regions. On the whole, their average adult weight is about 150 kilograms, while in the northeast region, the weight of the Ussuri wild boar (one of the wild boar subspecies) can reach more than 200 kilograms.

Don't look at the size of wild boars, and they mainly live in mountains and forests with complex terrain, but their running speed is not slow, and can reach more than 40 kilometers per hour, which is equivalent to running a distance of 11.1 meters in 1 second. It only takes about 9 seconds for a 100-meter race, surpassing the currently known 100-meter race champion.

Even if the speed is fast, this guy's attack power is also extremely strong. First of all, at such a fast speed, once a person is hit, he will be knocked out and instantly lose his combat effectiveness. This is not over yet, the canine teeth of wild boars can grow for life, forming fangs up to 6-8 cm long, once the human body is bitten, it is a "blood hole".

The last thing is its defense ability. Wild boars are animals with rough skin and thick flesh. They like to rub trees with their bodies when they have nothing to do. This is not to scratch the itch, but to increase their defense ability. Rough skin will become harder, so even if you have a gun in your hand, as long as the shot doesn't hit the head, the wild boar's combat effectiveness is still on the table.

The most important thing is that most wild animals will escape after being injured, but the wild boar not only does not escape, but also actively attacks the target that has injured itself, becoming more violent.

What should I do if I encounter wild boars in the wild? Can you play dead?

The probability of people encountering wild boars in the wild is actually not high, because wild boars in areas far from human activities are usually active in the morning and evening, and people generally rarely go to the wild during these two periods. Wild boars (farmland) that live near human activity areas are affected by human activities, but they are also usually active at night, and the chance of encountering people during the day is also very low.

However, don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, wild boar is a relatively dangerous animal after all, so what should you do if you accidentally encounter a wild boar in the wild?

Let's first take a look at what not to do when encountering wild boars in the wild?

First of all, when encountering wild boars in the wild, don’t pretend to be dead, because pretending to be dead can only be effective when encountering some carnivores that eat living things. Don’t think about wild boars and bears, because these animals not only eat "Dead objects", even stinky carrion, they will not let go, so when people encounter a wild boar lying down and pretending to be dead, the wild boar will soon come to bite, not only can't escape, but will lose the chance to escape.

Secondly, don't run when you encounter wild boars, and try not to turn around and run when you encounter wild animals that eat meat, because they will treat the fleeing people as prey, stimulate their desire to hunt, and run in the mountains at the speed of ordinary people, not only The speed is slow, and it is easy to fall. The most important thing is that the speed of the wild boar can reach more than 40 kilometers per hour, so it is impossible to run at the speed of a person.

Third, don't think about fighting hard. The combat effectiveness of human beings is actually not weak. This can be seen from the fact that an Indian aunt in her fifties can kill an adult leopard with a shovel and a sickle, and a Russian uncle can kill a wolf with her bare hands. However, people want to Killing a wild boar with bare hands is undoubtedly a fool's dream, because the defense ability of this creature is too strong.

Coupled with the aggressiveness of wild boars, people fight head-on with them, and as a result, there is a high probability that people will be bitten to the point of being bloody.

What should I do if I encounter a wild boar?

Since you can't beat a wild boar, you can't run away, and you can't play dead, what should you do? First of all, wild boars are territorial. If we see a single wild boar, it is usually a male wild boar, because the male wild boar only joins the wild boar group during the breeding season. It must be known that the male wild boar has a very strong territorial awareness. If If you encounter a group of wild boars, there is a high probability that there will be cubs in the wild boar group, and the female wild boar is also very aggressive when there are wild boar cubs.

Therefore, if you see wild boars from a distance, whether it is a single or a group, the best way at this time is to ignore them, and then slowly back away, because people may enter the territory of wild boars at this time.

If it is close to the wild boar or the wild boar has chased after us when we retreat, the best way at this time is to climb the tree, because although the ground combat capability of the wild boar is very strong, climbing trees is its weakness, and the survival of wild boars The environment is originally a mountain forest, and trees are easy to find, but pay attention to choosing a thicker tree. After all, the collision and teeth of wild boars are not vegetarian, and thin trees will be broken by it soon.

After climbing the tree, you just need to wait, because the wild boar sleeps about 12 hours a day and moves for 4-5 hours. The real foraging time is not long, and the wild boar's food intake is It is relatively large, so don't worry about it fighting with you, it will naturally leave when it is hungry.

Wild boars are so dangerous, why protect animals?

Although wild boar is not a national key protected animal, it is also a protected animal. It is strictly forbidden for individuals to hunt and kill without permission, and wild boar poses a relatively great threat to crops and people, which makes many friends propose the status of wild boar as a "protected animal". questioned.

But in fact, we have to understand one thing: the local proliferation of wild boars has little to do with protection. Because, even if the wild boar is not protected, the people who can kill it are too limited. In November last year, a professional wild boar hunting team from Tongjiang, Sichuan entered the mountains, equipped with guns and 7 hunting dogs. It took two and a half days to kill 8 wild boars, and the professional hunting dogs of the hunting team suffered serious losses.

It can be seen that when ordinary people hunt and kill wild boars, they simply hit rocks with eggs. Some people here will say "use traps". Although this method is almost harmless, it is necessary to know that wild boars live in not only wild boars, but also other wild animals, many of which are Some key protected animals, traps also pose a great threat to these wild animals.

Therefore, the protection of animals is not the reason for the proliferation of wild boars. The main reason is the imbalance of the ecological chain. In the past, the distribution area of ​​wild boars was restricted by tigers, leopards, wolves and other carnivores, and wild boars could not make waves at all, but The number of these animals is getting smaller and smaller under the killing of people, so that wild boars lose the restraint of natural enemies, coupled with their strong reproductive ability, and finally the result of wild boars flooding in many places.

The reason why the state protects wild boar is because it also plays an important role in the ecological chain. First of all, if you want to restore the ecological chain, wild boars are indispensable. In the future, tigers, leopards, wolves and other carnivores will not be released into the wild. , and there is no hunting to catch, and eventually it will still threaten people (domestic animals).

Secondly, wild boars turn the soil, eat mice, insects, snakes and other animals also have a good inhibitory effect on the number of these animals, so the wild boar has its ecological value, and this is the reason why it has become a protected animal.

It is more dangerous for people to encounter wild boars in the wild. At this time, they should be calm and not afraid. Observe the surrounding in time. If you see that wild boars have obvious attacking tendencies, you can quickly escape by climbing trees. As for pretending to be dead, escaping and fighting Don't think about it, no play.

Finally, there is still a long way to go to solve the "human-pig conflict". Since today's wild boars have lost the constraints of natural enemies, they need artificial constraints. Therefore, it is necessary to control the killing of some flooded areas. At the same time, A reasonable compensation mechanism should also be established for wild boars hurting people and destroying crops in flooded areas, so that we can see the day when the ecological chain is restored. What do you think?