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.