Hunting characteristics
Almost all hunters have been hunting since the age of 16, which is the legal age. Hunters also hunted predominantly in natural areas (20%), in a mixture of natural and agricultural areas (20%) or in natural and pastoral areas (17%). All hunters interviewed practiced drive hunting with dogs in a team of several hunters and two of them owned domestic pigs. The median of wild boars harvested by 28 hunting teams was 50 wild boars, IQR [30-100]. Differences between the median of hunted animals were not significant (63 vs 47.5). The main reported criterion for considering hybridization of wild boars was the observation of white spots in the fur (65%). More than a third of hunters recognized shooting hybrid wild boars (37%), if coming across crossbred individuals during hunting drives. Regarding offal management, 16/30 buried the offal waste, 2 of them left it abandoned in nature, and 10/30 gave it at least occasionally to the dogs. One of them throwed to the garbage.