Hi, Alin Flaider wrote: > > mike wrote: > > mw> ...and not something I want to meet on a dark night. I thought it was > mw> quite brave of the photographer to follow them. > > Not necessarily. Wild boars living near human communities (feeding > from crops, etc.) are not that wild anymore. Rather shy, retreating > at humans approach and certainly not aggressive. The matter changes > of course with boars in the wild woods taken by surprise, and > especially with a sow and sucking pigs.
Which is exactly what the subject was. My concern would be that a sow with litter, even when used to humans, could perceive a threat and act on it. In the pictured example, what would the sow do if the owner of the car came and tried to get in. (Forgetting that the driver's door is on the wrong side for a moment....) Most times it would gather the piglets and leg it but if it was dark and neither party knew the other was approaching..... Similarly, if you have been trying to find a nice place to give your kids a drink but some oik with a camera keeps following you...... m
