Introduction
Have you noticed the digged up soil all along the trail? Exactly, these are traces of a wild boar looking for food underearth.
It is getting each time easier to actually see a wild boar, and to find its traces even more.
In the puddles along the way, and especially in the mud at the bottom of the hill, where they take a bath to get rid of parasites and to cool off in the summer. The lower tree trunks around the puddles are dirty and muddy, and some have even lost their bark, the result of a wild boar scrubbing after its bath: If you look closely, you will find a few stuck bristles, leftovers from the last wild boar.
This animal eats anything: Acorns from the oak tree, under the ground it digs for plant bulbs, tender roots, insect larvae, worms and so on. We find it up here, but also along the banks of the river, where it digs through the damp earth, as well as in residential areas, snooping around the rubbish bins.
This adaptation to its environment, the milder climate, the changing explotation of the countryside, the forests,which have been abandoned by human and the lack of natural predators results in the wild sow giving birth to 8-10 squeakers twice a year. So, you can imagine how quickly the wild boar population is growing.