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"Only a few animals are large enough to prey on hybrid and feral pigs, and are too few in individual numbers to control their population."
(WIKI)

---And that is because for the last few decades...nay, for over a half century, American towns and suburbs have steadily eradicated those larger predators thanks to their drive to convert every available acre of wilderness into another "Pleasantville" style plastic neighborhood that is safe for Muffy and Junior to ride their Big Wheels.

Big real estate developers can't be bothered to do studies about the surrounding environment and couldn't care less about the impact of their projects, and town and city council members will do just about anything to stem the tide of angry NIMBYS who want all scary wild animals removed from their shiny new strip mall paradise.

And so, the apex predators disappear and naturally, the next figure on the totem pole takes over.
And those are your feral hogs and pigs in some cases, and in others it's the coyote, like it is out here in Southern California.

To borrow from the old classic song by Spirit: "It's Nature's way of telling you, something's wrong."