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"It was an ordinary November day last year (1921), when the ranger of Rogosi Guard brought a message to the office of Roosa Forest District, that a very strange, never seen beast was to have appeared in the woods that he guarded. Since its footprints were like a pig’s, only bigger, and as it had dug up the potato fields at night, the rangers decided jointly that it has to be a pig, and more likely – a boar.

 

One day, the 5th of January of this year [1922], the Krahi ranger ran to the district office and reported, that his hound had found the boar in the woods guarded by him. No one had time to think for long; the forest manager, his assistant and the administrator got dressed, sat up on their horses and off they went … On the very same day the bullet of manager Ellram hit this scrawny rarity,  weight 4 poods and 26 pounds (65,8 kg)."

So wrote the magazine Estonian Forest in the April issue of 1922. At this time there was no hunter here, who had seen this hoofed beast with his own eyes before.

 

Because of the period of rough winters, extraordinary numbers of wolves, and uncontrolled pursuit by men, only some few winterly roaming boars arrived to the areas of Estonia and Latvia in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1930ies the boars appeared in the woods of Alutaguse (big woodland of North-East Estonia). Ten years later they had been seen also in Central, North and South-East Estonia, but the harsh winter of 1939-1940  killed off most of the animals who had settled here.

 

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