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Comments by "Brad Griffin" (@BradGryphonn) on "How People Hunt Invasive Pythons And Turn Their Skin Into Leather | Risky Business | Insider News" video.
@declup There is anecdotal evidence, and some early scientific evidence, that recreational feral pig hunters have taken piglets alive when hunting to take back to areas closer to where they live and release them to breed. For some hunters, they may have to travel overnight to areas that have a feral pig population, so they have apparently, over the years, released young pigs in bushland where pigs were never recorded before, and now, years later, the pockets of populations are growing larger. And we won't talk about Australia introducing cane toads to protect sugar cane crops from a beetle that the cane toads couldn't reach to eat. That's not the 'Cobra Effect', but it has similarities.
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