>>5104693
Big Farma doesn't want you to know they shave the pigs

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>>5104693
You meant to post feral pigs, those are wild boar

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>>5104695
what's even the difference? this is supposed to be feral pigs.

>>5104696
A few generations.

>>5104693
they eat any kind of thing, reproduce relatively fast and are resistent to a large variety of climates and environments

They are just like us. Unironically.

>>5104693
The pig meta is eat anything, fuck anything, and give birth to dozens of little shits at a time.

>>5104696
>wild boar is an undomesticated animal with multiple subspecies
>domestic pig is a domesticated wild boar
>feral pig is an escaped domestic pig
Think of it as like wolf/domestic dog/feral dog. Feral pigs and pure wild boar look quite different when you compare them side by side, especially early generation feral pigs. The line blurs in places like Texas where people release pure wild boar to hunt and they interbreed with the feral pigs

>>5104857
but the weird thing is that feral pigs seem to get fur without interbreeding, so it's like in their genetics but doesn't get activated until they're wild.

>>5104864
It’s epigenetics. Just like how domestic dogs that have been feral for many generations turn into dingo looking things

>>5104879
but isn't a large part of that because mashing together random dog breeds? does that really happen if all dogs were same breed?

>>5104885
crossbreeding is part of it but it would eventually happen regardless of breed. Pigs just make that change in far fewer generations

>Feed a pig to an alligator
>That was amazing

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>>5104693
>instantly starts having fur
Pigs aren't hairless

>>5104955
Sure but they get more hairy due to epigenetic trigger.

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>>5104693
>they somehow instantly starts having fur
It was only quite recently (18th century onward iirc) that domesticated pigs were bred into the pink sparse-haired things we know them as today, previously just being slightly smaller wild boar with curly tails (plus regional coat variations).
Admittedly I don't know a ton about genetics, but that being the case, I would imagine it's not a big stretch to assume they might still have the old genes in them and just need a few generations of natural/non-human selective pressure to bring the "natural" traits back out.

>>5104961
>>5105208
That's what a epigenetic trigger is. The "normal" domestic pig is an evolutionary outlier created by humans. The hairy, tusked version is the pig's "factory setting" coming back online.

>>5105208
Epigenetics is when external factors like diet or temperature activate/deactivate genes. Like how captive lions and hyenas in places where it gets really cold in winter start to grow dense coats. A feral pig is genetically identical to a domestic pig, it’s just the expression of the same genes that changes

bigfoot is just a human with the epigenetic trigger to get big and hairy in the wild

>>5104693
In a lot of places (California being one that immediately comes to mind), they deliberately introduced wild boars before feral pigs became widespread so all of the feral pigs there nowadays have Wild Boar genes.
In places where only feral pigs were introduced, their descendants still look a lot more like domestic pigs.