'Wild boar attacks elderly man in Pendang
Posted on November 27, 2011, Sunday
Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/11/27/wild-boar-attacks-elderly-man-in-pendang/#ixzz1fCpeaKF5
Lessons:
1 - "An elderly man has been hospitalised due to severe injuries he suffered from an attack by a wild boar behind his house at Kampung Pokok Tai Lama"
Members of the pig/boar family are smart enough to figure out, the elderly are vulnerable to the attacks, and are going to have a tougher time defending themselves, evident of their condition of old-age.
Applying to the 2-4 million wild boars that have been problematic, also known as feral pigs in Texas, Presidio County, and near the Mexican border. [q.v. previous blog post]
A few other things to be aware of; when millions of a certain animal are allowed the opportunity to spread in terms of a population number, certain aspects of the species can develop, such as, they get larger and larger; additionally, as they might have to compete against each other, they might also become fiercer and fiercer. The ability to hide, and successfully prey on humans, might also develop.
The word feral, is indicative of the situation. Feral is not really the name of the species, feral is a general word to mean they were once domesticated, then set back out, or returned to the wild.
So, situation that occurred in a place that many Americans do not visit or hear about on the everyday news often, can foreseeably occur right here on American soil.
From the Borneo attack story: "Nordi’s [the victim's] brother Jaafar Said, 37, who lived near his home, said he knew about the incident...[and] “When I tried to chase it out, it attacked me. When I ran, the boar turned around and attacked my brother. I fought it and finally it released my brother and ran into a nearby forest,” he said, describing the animal as huge.
He said the doctor informed him that his brother had suffered internal bleeding in the chest and that he was still unconscious in the emergency ward."
Lessons:
- there is a forest or habitat not too far off, that the boar ran into, and for all intents and purposes, might be the same kind of environment that it emerged from.
- internal bleeding was one of the injuries from the boar attack
- the method of attack and injury, was biting
Where is Pendang, Borneo? The geographic area of the attack, and bear in mind, it is a different place than the U.S., different system, and recognized levels of civil development from their perspective, is in the Malaysia and Indonesia region.
Regarding mountain lions, also large predatory members of what is considered the cat family, including pumas, panthers, et. al.:
A story:
Officials face villagers' wrath over leopard attacks
Submitted by admin4 on 9 November 2011 - 1:27pm
By IANS,
Lucknow : Furious over continued leopard attacks on humans, villagers near the Katarniaghat forest reserve in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district roughed up forest officials and held them captive for several hours, an official said Wednesday.
A team of forest officials, including a deputy ranger, was roughed up by the locals of Azad Nagar village Tuesday after a leopard, which had killed a minor girl Oct 24, grievously mauled a youth Ramu in the village fields.
Accusing forest officials of not taking adequate steps to prevent wild animal attacks on humans, a large number of locals barged inside a forest outpost and manhandled the officials there.
... He confirmed that the same leopard had killed seven-year-old Kavita while she was sleeping outside her house in Sampatpurwa village."
http://twocircles.net/2011nov09/officials_face_villagers_wrath_over_leopard_attacks.html
And:
'Leopard attacks on rise, one more killed
Posted: Sat Oct 29 2011, 01:34 hrs Nagpur:
One more person was killed in a leopard attack in Samudrapur area of Wardha district on Thursday, suspected to have been caused by the same problem animal that has so far killed two persons in the neighbouring Chimur range of Chandrapur district.'
'The leopard was hiding near the electric pump switch...the leopard attacked him and killed him on the spot.'
Lessons:
There can be what they call a 'problem' animal, that for instance, that villagers recognize, even though the animal may be on the endangered species list.
This might be one way a problem animal becomes a problem animal. It recognizes wildlife officials, and gets on best behavior, when the official leaves, and then the animal sees vulnerable persons, they pounce, then revert back to best behavior and gain protection under no-hunt laws.
When dealing with very large, and/or extremely dangerous animals, the selection criteria, the discernment, when to remove an animal, from being in the prospect of a situation where it can attack humans, has to be decided upon with more careful scrutiny.
The analog is leopards to mountain lions et.al.; there is not much difference between a leopard and the mountain lions, pumas, and so forth, except for what color coat they have on the outside.
Recently in the U.S., as in, in 2011, there have been a number of sightings, and claims of sightings of the mountain lion animal. Most of the sightings were in the upper Midwest area, such as Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa. The coat color can be yellowish to blend with the grassy areas, or very dark hue, even up to pitch black, making them equipped night-time predators. Overall situation close enough, the warnings have come from abroad.
Lastly, where are large concentrations of bears, and where do they travel from and to?
Is it possible, that the seemingly nearly impossible is happening, which is, bears from large concentrated area, where they roam in the wild in numbers of hundreds or thousands, are traveling distances so extreme, such as thousands of miles, it shatters the notion of what the boundaries of a species of bears is respective to a habitat in a specific region.
For example, there are bears in the 'Far East', Bears in Europe, and bears in North America including continental U.S.; this is how we learned about them in terms of species groupings; is the reality that, to an extreme, all the groups are just one large group?
Lucknow : Furious over continued leopard attacks on humans, villagers near the Katarniaghat forest reserve in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district roughed up forest officials and held them captive for several hours, an official said Wednesday.
A team of forest officials, including a deputy ranger, was roughed up by the locals of Azad Nagar village Tuesday after a leopard, which had killed a minor girl Oct 24, grievously mauled a youth Ramu in the village fields.
Accusing forest officials of not taking adequate steps to prevent wild animal attacks on humans, a large number of locals barged inside a forest outpost and manhandled the officials there.
... He confirmed that the same leopard had killed seven-year-old Kavita while she was sleeping outside her house in Sampatpurwa village."
http://twocircles.net/2011nov09/officials_face_villagers_wrath_over_leopard_attacks.html
And:
'Leopard attacks on rise, one more killed
Posted: Sat Oct 29 2011, 01:34 hrs Nagpur:
One more person was killed in a leopard attack in Samudrapur area of Wardha district on Thursday, suspected to have been caused by the same problem animal that has so far killed two persons in the neighbouring Chimur range of Chandrapur district.'
'The leopard was hiding near the electric pump switch...the leopard attacked him and killed him on the spot.'
Lessons:
There can be what they call a 'problem' animal, that for instance, that villagers recognize, even though the animal may be on the endangered species list.
This might be one way a problem animal becomes a problem animal. It recognizes wildlife officials, and gets on best behavior, when the official leaves, and then the animal sees vulnerable persons, they pounce, then revert back to best behavior and gain protection under no-hunt laws.
When dealing with very large, and/or extremely dangerous animals, the selection criteria, the discernment, when to remove an animal, from being in the prospect of a situation where it can attack humans, has to be decided upon with more careful scrutiny.
The analog is leopards to mountain lions et.al.; there is not much difference between a leopard and the mountain lions, pumas, and so forth, except for what color coat they have on the outside.
Recently in the U.S., as in, in 2011, there have been a number of sightings, and claims of sightings of the mountain lion animal. Most of the sightings were in the upper Midwest area, such as Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa. The coat color can be yellowish to blend with the grassy areas, or very dark hue, even up to pitch black, making them equipped night-time predators. Overall situation close enough, the warnings have come from abroad.
Lastly, where are large concentrations of bears, and where do they travel from and to?
Is it possible, that the seemingly nearly impossible is happening, which is, bears from large concentrated area, where they roam in the wild in numbers of hundreds or thousands, are traveling distances so extreme, such as thousands of miles, it shatters the notion of what the boundaries of a species of bears is respective to a habitat in a specific region.
For example, there are bears in the 'Far East', Bears in Europe, and bears in North America including continental U.S.; this is how we learned about them in terms of species groupings; is the reality that, to an extreme, all the groups are just one large group?
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