Monster From the Ether
The other night, after landing here in sunny Puerto Rico, David checked his blog subscriptions. One of the stories caught my eye—an 11-year-old boy had shot and killed a wild pig in Alabama. This sounded normal except for the size of the pig: 9 feet 4 inches long, weighing just over 1,051 pounds. Here is the picture:
How on earth do animals this large still live in the wild in this country? And how old was this thing when the kid shot it? And, amazingly enough, this was the second pig of this size killed in the South in recent years ("Hogzilla" was killed in Georgia in 2004, and weighed about 1,000 pounds).
Meanwhile, we are encountering much smaller beings here in the PR: mosquitoes, no-see-ums, reef fish and wild hens and roosters (a nice wake-up call in the morning).
How on earth do animals this large still live in the wild in this country? And how old was this thing when the kid shot it? And, amazingly enough, this was the second pig of this size killed in the South in recent years ("Hogzilla" was killed in Georgia in 2004, and weighed about 1,000 pounds).Meanwhile, we are encountering much smaller beings here in the PR: mosquitoes, no-see-ums, reef fish and wild hens and roosters (a nice wake-up call in the morning).
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