For part of last week and part of this week, I was in Texas. For the first few days, I was in Austin, my birthplace and for the last couple days, I was at my grandfather’s ranch. While I was in Austin, I met up with some of our old friends, and got to meet a puppy, but we are going to talk about when I was at my grandfather’s ranch. While I was in his ranch, my dad took Alex (my brother) and I on many “safari” rides. On these outings we saw: wild boar, deer, black buck antelope, zebra, porcupines, armadillos and vultures. On our last night, we decided to go for one more outing: the whole time we were there, we hoped and hoped to see a wild boar, but never saw one until our last-night outing. We went out, expecting to see nothing, it was extremely cold, for Texas at least, and we started to poke around with our jeepy thing*, when all of a sudden two dark-haired, small wild boars were right in front of us! We followed them and after they ran under thick brush, we decided to turn around. It started raining, the rain hitting our faces like rocks. As we drove back, two armadillos crossed the road in front of us.  We were very excited when we got home, but we had to go straight to bed because it was 9:30pm.

(the picture is not ours; I got it off the internet)

WILD BOAR PICTURE

I learned that wild boars are nocturnal, meaning that they are active during the night and are asleep during the day. I noticed that there was a tree that all of the cranes in the ranch nested together in. There  is also this tube thingy, it goes through the bottom of the lake there and when there is too much water in the lake, it sucks the water up, (not all of it) and spits it out of the other end and thus, create a little stream. They are trying to get rid of the wild boars because they are really destructive. What is the diet of a wild boar? Are they solitary? Do they fight for territory?