Americas Most Wanted: Wild Boar

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Americas Most WantedWild Boar

• By Joseph

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Description

• Full grown female wild boars (5 years or older)
  have a body length of about 135 cm and a weight
  of 55-70 kg
• while adult males reach 140-150 cm and weigh
  between 80 and 90 kg
• have the ability to leap 3 to 4 feet in the air

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Native Area

• Eurasia
• Asia
• North Africa
• Japan
• Malayan Island

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Invaded Area

• California

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Introduction

• 1500s continental u.s.
• Brought for food
• Brought by Spanish explores

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Problems

• Kill pets
• Eat or tear up crops
• Invades peoples property
• predation of newborn lambs

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Control

• Shoot
• Electric fences
• Poisons
• Biologic

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Other

• Both sexes have 44 teeth
• east almost anything flowering plants,
  mushrooms, snails, snakes, small mammals, bird
  eggs, salamanders, and carrion

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Wild Boar vs. Olive Fruit Fly
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Conclusion

• Overall, the wild boar and olive fruit fly are
  different because the wild boar is a wild pig
  that eats and destroys crops and the olive fruit
  fly is a fly that destroys olives. One is one
  third of a house fly and the other can be bigger
  than a full grown man.

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Sources

• http//alic.arid.arizona.edu/invasive/sub7/index.s
  html (teacher)http//nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/htt
  p//www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/behavingworse/leastwan
  ted.htmlhttp//www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/animal
  s/main.shtml
• http//dnr.wi.gov/invasives/
• http//library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01507/http//
  library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00946/accounts/reptil
  es.htmturtle