Video shows wild boar emerging from the Baltic Sea, to the shock of German beachgoers
“What is this?” a woman asks in German. It’s a peaceful day at a beach in the coastal town of Schoenberg, but there’s something coming ashore.
It’s not a shark or anything you might expect in the Baltic Sea, though. It’s a wild boar.
In a video published by The Associated Press, the swine seems to appear out of nowhere and swiftly swim to shore, where it proceeds to run wild.
First, it charges at a man who swats it away with a shovel.
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“Let it go!” someone shouts in German, but the boar seems undeterred.
It charges across the beach, past umbrellas and bemused beachgoers and disappears into tall grass.
This is the second viral boar spotting in Germany this month.
Last Wednesday photos emerged of a naked man chasing a wild boar that had stolen a bag containing his laptop while he was taking a dip in the lake at Teufelssee, a popular nudist spot in Berlin.
The photos were posted to Instagram by actor Adele Landauer, who got permission from the man.
“Everyone of us adored him how focused he stayed and when he came back with his yellow bag (containing his laptop) in the hand we all clapped and congratulated him for his success,” Landauer wrote. “This happens when you’re focused on your goals.”
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Yesterday at the lake in Berlin I saw a real hero. A female wild boar with two babies came out of the forest in order to search for food. In Berlin we are free people - we love to bathe in the sun and lake like we are born. So, there were many people laying on their towels completely naked. Many of us were scared but the wild boars seemed to be peaceful. After they ate a pizza from a backpack of a man who was taking a swim in the lake they were looking for a dessert. They found this yellow bag and decided to take it away. But the man who owned it realized it was the bag with his laptop. So, he was very focused and run behind the boars in order to get it back. Everyone of us adored him how focused he stayed and when he came back with his yellow bag in the hand we all clapped and congratulated him for his success. This happens when you’re focused on your goals. xoxoxo Adele . . . #hero #wildboar #berlin #coaching #onlinecourse #digitalcoaching #workshop #businesscoaching #lifecoachingtips #erfolgreichwerden #ausstrahlung #charisma #selbstwert #bewusstsein #kommunikation #selbstbewusstsein #veränderung #gespräch #dialog #selbstverwirklichung #powerfulthoughts #führung #radiance #weiterbildung #zieleereeichen #inspiration #präsentationstraining #publicspeaking #körpersprache #bodylanguage
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Neighbouring Denmark, which has twice as many pigs as people, put up a 70-kilometre border fence last year to protect its pork industry from Germany’s wild boars, The Associated Press reported .
And Canada has been dealing with its own wild boar problem since the animals were imported from Europe in the 1980s and ’90s as part of livestock diversification programs. Many escaped and bred with domestic pigs and now the feral swine can be found everywhere from British Columbia to Quebec.
A team at the University of Saskatchewan has been tracking them and dubbed them “superpigs” because they survive Canada’s harsh winters.
“We should be worried,” Ryan Brook, a researcher at the university told The Telegraph . “They are called an ecological train wreck for a reason.”
With files from National Post and Postmedia News