The wild boar in China is protected in China under law. Judging from its behaviour in Nanjing over the last year, this fact has not been lost on the beast. For creating havoc in our city’s residential communities appears to be its preferred form of pursuit.
It was back on 23 January that the wild boar entertained itself by running amok around the Taihuai Shijia Residential Community in Nanjing’s Lishui District.
There then followed a futile chase of the boar by one of the Community’s security guards. He had armed himself with a stick, to which he had attached a fishing net.
Needless to say, it was all in vain. Not just because of the makeshift attempt at capture apparatus, but also because wild boars can easily outpace a human. But in this case, no humans were harmed in the incident.
Remotely-controlled security cameras around the compound were able to follow and record the comical chase. That footage, in a video report released by The Paper, can be watched via this link.
Therein, a spokesperson for the community’s property management, a man surnamed Ren, explains that the compound backs on to a mountain. As such, it is in close proximity to boars, pheasants and other wild animals.
Ultimately, the boar was successfully captured and released back into the wild.
Stories about wild boars encroaching upon Nanjing’s urban environment have been commonplace recently, not least in these pages (because they rate well).
In October of last year, a wild boar approximately 1.5 metres in length and weighing 150 kilograms, playfully loitered around Nanjing’s Gulou Dongpaotai Residential Community. The beast injured itself by slamming into the glass door of a temporary shop.
The following month, a wild boar both delighted and terrified students in a Nanjing university. That particular boar was also chased, but in this instance, all around the campus by some of the braver male students, in a scene more reminiscent of Spain’s San Fermin Festival.
But for the boar in Lishui District, it seems the festival was entirely theirs to enjoy.
