When a pack of wild boars invades your agricultural land during the harvest season, destroying the crops with their razor-sharp tusks, what do you do?
You can employ guards to hunt them, use a tranquilliser or dart gun to sedate and capture them, or trap them, luring them into a corral with jello powder-laced dried corn and doughnuts kept inside.
In the US, the feral pig population has become a headache for the government, farmers, conservation biologists and water district officials in many states. Wildlife managers and researchers are busy exploring various measures to control the menace — ranging from contraceptives and
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