kmike

I've had a few encounters with Wild Boar - usually they are keen to stay away and run off as soon as they're seen, but about 15 years ago I was frightened to hear one making angry-sounding noises in the bushes very close to the path in Tai Long Wan and since it didn't rush off, but kept growling and grunting I climbed up a tree until it moved off. I never saw it at any stage, but would hate to have one come at me from close cover in the forest.

It's much more comfortable to digiscope them from the living room window, as I did with this one in Feb 2008!


With no tigers and leopards left in Hong Kong their only predators are feral dogs and the largest pythons, but I'm not sure anything could take on a full-grown adult Boar.

Cheers
Mike K