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Scientific Names of Plants Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest
The wild boar appears to us as something straight out of a myth.
But as Jeffrey Greene learned, these creatures are very real,
living by night and, despite shrinking habitats and hordes of
hunters, thriving on six continents. Greene purchased an
eighteenth-century presbytery in a region of ponds and forests
in northern Burgundy between the Loire and Seine Rivers of
France. He soon discovered he’d moved to one of the most densely
populated boar areas in Europe. Following the gift of a side of
boar from a neighbor, and a dramatic early-morning encounter
with a boar-hunting party and its prey, Greene became fascinated
with the animal and immersed himself in the legend and the
reality of the wild boar. Although it has no natural enemies,
the boar is in constant conflict with humans. Most societies
consider it a pest, not only