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Canadian 'super pigs' are likely to invade northern US, study warns May 27 2024 Live Science

... "They eat anything from small mammals like mice to ducks and geese, all the way up to adult whitetail deer that they kill and eat." ... may eventually cross the border into North and South Dakota, Montana and Minnesota, according to the study, which was published May 9 in the journal Biological Invasions...

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Population Explosion of Canadian “Super Pigs” Could Spread Into the Northern U.S. January 18, 2023 Field & Stream

... Wild boars were brought in from Europe to be raised on farms across Canada... early 1980s ...farmers and ranchers soon crossbred the wild boars with domestic pigs... the hybridization resulted in bigger “super pigs” ... They can take down a whitetail deer ...