Feral Swine in the Southeastern United States

摘要: In the southern part of United States, pig, Sus scrofa, is not only quite capable getting along without protection man, but it probably has survived in this manner for four hundred years (Towne and Wentworth, 1950). The first swine to reach States were landed on Gulf Coast 1539 by Fernando De Soto (Lewis, 1907). Swine escaped from Soto's entourage as he traveled over 3,000 miles through what now States. Other adventurers Spanish missionaries continued introduce at intervals during seventeenth eighteenth centuries. Indians aided naturalization swine, animals that passed into their hands usually allowed roam free woods, a custom which many white brethren also followed. When French attempted settlement Florida 1560, supplied them with pork feral herds. 1697, Jonathan Dickinson (1790), who put ashore day was St. Simon Island (Georgia), reported his party went hunting deer hogs brought several each. Such allusions are rather infrequent early records. spite reports readily took woods Carolina Georgia increased prolifically there, must have spread far settlements. If they did, natives travelers appear considered game. Moore (1840), visited coast 1744, Kemble (1863), spent winter 1838-39 Butler's islands, do mention accounts game animals. However, there no real evidence ever disappeared these areas. Salley (1911), secretary Historical Commission South 1911, asserts then be found lower