Why is the AP — now, in November. . .

citing Yahoo —

for a story IMAO covered in a Straight Line back in February —

from a story in Popular Mechanics —

based on a story from MSN —

that is now no longer available?

Then:

Straight Line of the Day: The Only Logical Response to an Invasion of Highly Intelligent Invincible Super Pigs Is… – IMAO

Now:

A population of hard-to-eradicate ‘super pigs’ in Canada is threatening to invade the US
AP via Yahoo | 11/22/2023 | Steve Karnowski

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion.

In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a “super pig” that’s spreading out of control.

Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada’s leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, “the most invasive animal on the planet” and “an ecological train wreck.”

I did find this February article, though:

Destructive ‘Super Pigs’ From Canada Threaten the Northern U.S.

Smithsonian Magazine | Feb. 27, 2023 | Margaret Osborne

Notice this Ryan Brook popping up with the same quote:

“We have already documented pig occurrences less than ten miles from the U.S. border. Quite honestly, I think there have already been some in Manitoba going into North Dakota for the last five or six years,” Ryan Brook, who leads the University of Saskatchewan’s Canadian Wild Pig Research Project, tells Field and Stream’s Sage Marshall. “There is no physical, biological boundary at the U.S.-Canada border. There is hardly any kind of fencing to speak of. There’s a real risk of pigs moving south into the U.S.”

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“We should be worried, because we know the biology,” Brook told National Geographic. “They’re called an ecological train wreck for a reason.”