Raven Meindel / Crypto Haven Research & Investigations
 

 Feral swine are still posing threats and spreading disease to wild as well as domestic animals. To be sure of what the eradication plans in your area are, please be sure to visit your local DNR page for updates.
Michigan DNR Feral Swine

Watch the video here :
A Pickup Load of Pigs: The Feral Swine Pandemic Video

Here are 10 facts about them:

1.
A feral swine is a free-ranging pig considered an exotic animal and a public nuisance. They are believed to be a derived from wild European boar, escaped domestic pigs or a hybrid of the two.
2. The state wants the animals gone for good. Legislation passed last June declared feral pigs a nuisance in Michigan. Animal control officers, law enforcement, individuals with a concealed pistol permit and those with hunting licenses can shoot and kill the animals on public or private property. Property owners can shoot the animals on their own property without a hunting license.
3. The wild swine threaten domestic livestock, wildlife, the environment and individuals, according to the MDNRE website.
4. In Michigan, the pigs have been spotted in the majority of the state’s 83 counties.
5. Around the country, the pigs have been identified in 40 states.
6. Feral swine can carry up to 30 viral and bacterial diseases and up to 37 diseases that affect wildlife, pets and people.
7. Female swine can breed at 6 months old and can have as many as 2 litters of piglets per year with between 4 and 12 piglets per litter.
8.The animals eat just about anything, from crops to live animals.
9.The animals can be aggressive, particularly if it is a sow with piglets.
10.Sightings, kills and suspected damage from feral swine can be reported to the DNRE at (517) 336-5030 or Rosej3@michigan.gov.
-Source, Washtenaw County MSU Extension and MDRNE

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So, as some of you know, my family and I are in the process of purchasing a new home on 16 acres of land. Tonight the inspector came to do our inspection, so we hung out for a few hours while he did so. We decided to walk a bit of the property and get to know the area and the neighbors.
Some of that land is prime area for conducting my research as a cryptozoologist as well as observing known animals. I am working on my Zoology degree and should be finished by around March of 2012. (Due to health reasons, I had to take a short hiatus, but Im back at it now.)
Adam and I walked through the brush and to the back part of what the neighbors call "the first little woods".  The forest runs into a marshy area, then into an open meadow, and then it goes back to being thickly wooded on the other side of the meadow / clearing.
I saw definite sign of  whitetail deer and places where they had bedded down. There was a small tree in one of the clearings where a porcupine had stripped down the bark, and various bird calls serenaded our early evening jaunt through our new little patch of Heaven. I know we are going to be happy there.
I can't wait to get trail cams set up.  We are thinking of  building a little observation type cabin back there that will suit my purpose very well!
I wish I had brought my camera with me tonight but I will be sure to do so next time.


 
 
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In an upcoming issue of EdgeScience (  Issue #7 ) , cryptozoologist Adam Davies, in a pre-published paper being presented in the magazine, reveals his conclusion that
“a serious consideration of the scientific evidence for the orang-pendek points in two directions at once. The structural analysis of the hair suggests either an orangutan, or something very closely related to an orangutan. The DNA analysis, on the other hand, points to a human or something very closely related to humans. But why can’t it be both? Could the orang-pendek be an example of bipedal evolution from the orangutan, a relative rather than a direct ancestor, and more advanced than any we are aware of in recent human history? They display only the most primitive tool use, on a par with the chimpanzee, but they certainly have no ability to make fire. Yet all of the witnesses I have interviewed have been startled by two key features: their bipedal locomotion, and their ‘human like’ face, had they been fortunate enough to see it.”

To read more about this intriguing revelation, please visit this link :

Orang Pendek Declared New Primate Species