Wild boars

Wild boars

　　The only large wild animal that the state publicly encourages the entire society to completely eradicate is the wild boar. Wild boars are extremely savage and violent, often destroying crops and even harming human lives—they do all kinds of mischief. The wild boars in Wulingyuan are naturally no exception. In the 1980s, during the early development of Tianzi Mountain, Mr. Jing Youquan would get up before dawn every morning to carry his camera and rush to capture the sunrise over Tianzi Mountain. One morning, on a small path, he suddenly came face-to-face with two huge wild boars, each weighing five or six hundred pounds, accompanied by four or five smaller ones weighing around a hundred pounds, strutting confidently toward him. Mr. Jing Youquan was so frightened that he immediately fell into the grass by the roadside and played dead. As the boars passed by him, they stopped to sniff him but thought he was dead (wild boars don’t attack the dead) and eventually walked away. The most dangerous part of a wild boar is its mouth—as the saying goes, “A 300-pound wild boar relies entirely on its snout.” A wild boar’s mouth is mightier than an iron plow. (Zhangjiajie)