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Ever more often piglet tracks can be seen in autumn; young sows have rutting periods at odd times. It will be difficult for these piglets to survive the winter.

There has been no frost in the ground for a long time, and so the main food is the above- and underground parts of plants; hunters’ forage fields are visited as well as this year’s unharvested – because of the overly wet weather – cornfields. Boars get animal protein from rooting for worms, molluscs, insects, amphibians and by hunting  small mammals. And there are truly plenty of signs of their activities