When people talk about wild pigs you have to understand something. Pigs revert to the wild for some reason within 1 or 2 generations. So, those that survive get hairy and grow fangs.
So, dying from a Wild Boar is an easy thing to happen in the foothills many places in California. Because unless you have a hunting rifle they will win if they attack you. The first problem is that Wild Boar are very very intelligent and on land likely the most intelligent foe you will face other than another human being.
Let me tell you my story of what happened likely in 1985 or 1986 on my way to go on duty to working as a fire lookout with the nearest larger city being Hollister, California. So, from my Fire Lookout manned then by what is presently called CAL Fire or the Department of Forestry then in 1985. They fight fires in the property that is not federal property but managed by the state. At that time they paid Fire Lookouts to man lookouts from about April to October during the fire seasons then state wide. My lookout also looked across the Sacramento Valley to the Sierras. So, when I went on duty often in April (or around there whenever they decided to man the lookout) I would see the snow covered Sierras in the distance across the Sacramento Valley.
So, I was coming on duty at the lookout and I was opening and closing Ranch gates to get there because the road to the Fire Lookout was over private Ranch land with Cattle and sometimes bulls. So, I was looking for cattle or bulls as I got out to open and close ranch gates traveling on dirt roads to the lookout.
I had just latched on gate and had gotten into my 1976 VW Rabbit and started out when (it was getting dark and something hit my right front bumper and pushed my car off the dirt road and into a ditch. I figured it was a bull that attacked my car and since I wasn't allowed a weapon (like a rifle or pistol to protect myself as a Fire Lookout, I decided to just keep driving even though the side of my car was getting scratched by the ditch and then I pulled out of the ditch with my headlights on and decided to just keep driving because I wasn't allowed a pistol or rifle to protect myself. I drove to the fire lookout in the dark and parked my car in the garage under the lookout and climbed the internal wood staircase up to the top of the lookout.
When I was driving back out and going off duty it was daytime this time and the sun hadn't set yet 3 1/2 to 4 days later and I found the huge carcass of the female mother Boar that was almost as big as my VW Rabbit Car and might have weighed even more than my car.
What had happened is when she bit my right bumper with her mouth it tore off her lower jaw so she couldn't eat or drink. I felt bad for her because dying from no water or food is a bad way to go for anyone or any animal so I kind of wished I had had a weapon to at the very least put her out of her misery more quickly. But, I was glad she hadn't killed me too the other night. About 1/2 block away were her babies wondering why Mama wasn't getting up. However, they were all between 150 to 300 pounds already so I felt they likely could manage without her anyway. So, I got back into my car before other boar attacked me or my car again.
So, what I'm saying here is a male or female boar is about as dangerous (or more so) than an Angry Bull or even a Buffalo.
By the way Buffalos kill more People in the U.S. than any other wild animal every year. So, if you see buffalos stay away from them (especially the males or females with babies) because they kill people in about 2 to 3 seconds.
First they knock people to the ground with their heads and horns and then they stomp on their heads and chests until their heads and chests are flat. So, Buffalos kill people very very quickly. It's important to realize this if you are around wild buffalo in places like Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park.
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