This is to mimic the weight of the boar.

This is it. The boar has a very odd courtship repertoire.

The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

He's going to be doing things with his hands that the boar would use his snout, lacking hands. Okay.

The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

Abandoned houses and farm buildings offered ready made nests and dens. By 1993, the number of wild boar had increased sixfold, before halving due to a disease outbreak and predation from the rapidly growing wolf population.

Whatever damage radiation has wrought, human habitation has caused far greater destruction. Indeed, in areas outside the zone or nature reserves, populations of elk and wild boar underwent steep declines, as major socioeconomic changes after the fall of the Soviet Union worsened rural poverty and crippled wildlife management.

PALO ALTO Last June, the United Nations World Health Organization, responding to an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, boosted the pandemic alert to the highest level, Phase 6, meaning that a pandemic was under way the first time in 41 years that the organization had taken that declared step. But the outbreak appears to have ended less like the rogue wild boar that WHO bureaucrats predicted and more like a roasted pork tenderloin with apples and sage.