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State authorities say the unexpected exposure of Rodentide is making California wild pigs blue.
“I’m not talking about a little blue,” said Dan Burton, owner of a wildlife control agency in California. Los Angeles TimesThe “I’m talking about Neon Blue, Blueberry Blue.”
Burton one of the first trappers discovered that local wild pigs turned blue inside. Ay Subsequent investigation California Fish and Wildlife Division (CDFW) showed that pigs have consumed anticoulants Rodenticide Defassinone, a poison used to control the population of unwanted rats, rats, squirrels and other small animals by farmers. These substances are often colored to identify them as poison, CDFW has said, which probably explains how the pigs ended with blue muscles and fat.
Burton’s own investigation has shown that poisonous pigs seem to be frequently squirrel top stations, which local farmers were using their crops to control the squirrel population. However, since the poisonous top had a small dose of defacinone, the pigs were not acting outwardly, despite the blue.
CDFW said that eating poisonous animals by rodenticide can bring about the secondary contact of poison. As a result, the company warns the hunters not to consume any wild animals with blue pollution and to report any scene of this national animal to officials. Overall, the company has suggested additional caution around the regions, including the rat control program of hunters, because it is also possible that exposed animals cannot be blue.
“The hunters should be aware that the animals in the game such as wild pigs, deer, bears and gizes can be contaminated if the creature of that game comes in contact with Rodenticide,” CDFW’s pesticide investigating coordinator Ryan Borber says.
This is not the first time that officers have identified poisonous wild pigs by rat poison. In 2018, a Study About 8.3% of wild pigs hidden in agriculture or residential areas with CDFW by CDFW are found in about 8.3% of the rodenticide in wild pigs. To other studies from 2011 And 2023It has been shown that poisonous cooked meat with diaphasinone could not eliminate the contamination and the people who consume meat can show the symptoms of rodenticide like laziness.
In 2024, California Forbidden The use of defacinone with the exception of specific instances on certificates sites, to protect the wildlife from involuntary poison as part of the law. CDFW is asking them to see them in the agency to see anyone in front of the wild animals with blue fat or tissue [email protected] Or (916) 358-2790.