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Old August 4, 2011, 10:06 AM   #18
Art Eatman
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Join Date: November 13, 1998
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Wildlife biologists from Texas Parks & Wildlife have stated that it only takes a few generations for domesticated hogs to physically revert toward wild-hog characteristics. Lean bodies, longer snouts, tusks.

Why this change occurs is unknown to me. Not sure anybody really knows the why of it. "Going feral" will make behavioral changes to some extent in horses and cattle, but little change in physical characteristics in the genetic sense.
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