See? The good folks in Pennsylvania tried to warn us that hogs are fierce and a threat to life and limb! It looks like maybe their warnings have proven true…
Or not, really.
According to this article on Arizona Star Net, a javeina bit a Dutch tourist at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, causing the staff to evacuate the museum and shut it down for the day while a search was made for the offending beast.
From the report so far, the fierce creature slipped into the museum grounds somehow, and while the attack was allegedly unprovoked, it is possible that the animal felt cornered. Or, so goes the article.
Apparently thinking the animal was part of an exhibit, the man unknowingly approached too close to the javelina, said Aninna Thornburg, an Arizona Game and Fish spokeswoman.It was a non-provoked attack, though the javelina could have felt cornered, Thornburg said.
OK, javelina really aren’t even related to wild boar or feral hogs, but I did think it was an interesting story. Besides, it gives me an easy post to kick off the week!
