I told ya they were mean….
The search is on for a savage attack-pig… OK, it’s serious. Godspeed and a quick recovery to the tourist. That being said, if they find a herd of javelina, what are they going to do? Kill them all? Wild story indeed.
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Search fruitless for javelina that bit Dutch tourist
RYN GARGULINSKI
Tucson CitizenThe hunt for a wild javelina stretched into the fourth day Monday after the beast bit an Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum visitor Friday afternoon.
The 45-year-old Dutch tourist did not wish to be named and declined an interview. He is listed in fair condition at University Medical Center, where he is recovering from emergency surgery. “It apparently hit some sort of artery,” said Arizona Game & Fish spokeswoman Aninna Thornburg. The man’s wounds bled substantially and he was airlifted to UMC. If the javelina is captured, it will be killed so it can be tested for rabies, the only way to test for the disease. Museum staffers, Game & Fish employees and the wildlife services department of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have searched for the javelina on museum grounds. “There’s been no sign of it,” museum Associate Executive Director Craig Ivanyi said Monday. “We’ve been out there pretty much 24 hours a day. “Thornburg said six traps were set at the museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road, to increase the likelihood of snaring the beast. “Anything smelly will work as bait,” she said, but there’s no saying when a javelina may feel like surfacing. “They can hide for days,” she said. There is also no way of being certain that a captured wild javelina would be the one that bit the tourist, Ivanyi said. The man’s injuries occurred when he approached a javelina on the path near the museum’s javelina exhibit. This particular peccary was not part of the regular exhibit, which is enclosed in mesh, but rather a wild one that had somehow gotten on museum grounds, museum officials said.
