Thread: Large boar encounter - How dangerous is this really?

Originally Posted by Flyblown

There’s only two situations that a pig will charge you:

1. Sow with piglets, and she feels she / piglets are threatened.
2. Any pig that backs itself if it feels cornered.

There is precisely zero situations where a boar is going to sneak up on you and try and eat you. Wild pigs are extremely wary of humans and will do their utmost to stay out of your way.

'There is precisely zero situations where a boar is going to sneak up on you and try and eat you.' That's just a silly thing to say...They will fuck you up if wounded or cornered. We investigated situations where remains of humans were found in pigstys' either by mishap or otherwise, in Africa.