Boar!
Boar!
Run!
Beachgoers in northern Germany were shocked by the sight of a wild boar approaching them from the Baltic Sea.
Well, you don’t expect it, do you. You expect humans, and maybe crabs, and an occasional otter, but not wild boars. The snout! The ears!
Footage from the scene shows the swine swimming for the shore with its snout and ears poking above the water.
It would make me rethink my leisure habits, for sure.
Wild boar are known to be able swimmers. There were reports last year of a herd of boar swimming several miles across the Malacca Strait from Indonesia to Malaysia and terrorising farmers upon arrival.
Be careful out there.
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Maybe it was the Erymathian boar that was fought by Hercules.
Or maybe it was an otter that identifies as a boar.
A boar who identifies as an otter, surely?
A Reed Shaken by the Wind by Gavin Maxwell is a travel book among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq who lived in reed huts on islands. They were menaced by the ferocious wild pigs who could swim. Being Muslims, they couldn’t even eat the beasts.
Just another boaring day at the beach.
Ha!
Luau pig looking for the party?
Elephants are also able swimmers, so are horses. Oddly, hippopotamus(es?) are not.
Well, elephants have a huge advantage, with the built-in snorkel.
Where’s Obelix when you need him?
I could find a use for a built in snorkel on a 97+ degree day, just point me at a pool and I’d head for the deep end.
Sorry. Way off topic.
Its the Gadarene Swine come home to roost. Repent!
What is it with pigs attacking Germans lately? Are they getting their own back for all those sausages?
Only the other day, a boar stole a naked German’s laptop:
https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/07/moment-naked-sunbather-chases-wild-boar-when-stole-laptop-bag-13098331/
Naked Germans are number 1 on my list of things I don’t miss now I live in the UK.