Earlier this month I did a post about a wild boar in Germany stealing a man's laptop and a couple of days ago a boar swam out of the Baltic sea onto a German beach and created chaos which made me wonder if it wasn't more about the wild animals getting used to not having humans in their environment than it was about them acting differently. The clincher for my theory came when officials in California were trying to catch and relocate a wild turkey named Gerald who had lived in a park in the Oakland area for years and suddenly became aggressive. Instead of just assuming these animals ran amok for no reason it seems somewhat obvious to me that they got used to the absence of humans and decided to keep them out of their territory.
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