Read: Groundbreakers- The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar by Chantal Lyons ★★★★☆ 📚
The author’s fascination with boar & belief in the good they could do to the environment doesn’t stop her reporting on both points of view. The difference between European acceptance & Uk fears is telling.
@johnjohnston Deep in that book now and loving it.
@adders I wish I lived nearer some of the places that have boar. I’d love to see them.
@johnjohnston @adders I have only ever seen one, and it was injured, on hundreds of hours walking in the woods in Italy. I have seen what they can do to the ground. Astonishing.
@jeremycherfas @johnjohnston @adders A «sanglier» crossed my path when I was walking on a quiet road in France about 17 or 18 years ago. He ignored me and didn’t get very close, for which I was grateful, as he was BIG. He just crossed the road and a field and went into a wood. I had eaten a piece of «sanglier» at a street market some weeks before: strong-tasting, salty and tough to chew. I wouldn’t recommend.
@artkavanagh I’ve seen them in captivity, but I expect they look a lot bigger if there is no fence between you and them!
@artkavanagh Scrotch scrotch, IIRC.