A resident spotted a wild boar waiting for food down a HDB block. The person who posted the video said that it is happening almost every night.
He said:
My neighborhood.. sighting of wild boar and the best part.. Neighbours are throwing food foods from their windows to feed that pig.
It will be at the same spot and the pig will literally wait for the “food” to be “served” almost every night.I didn’t manage to capture on video that people are feeding it though
A netizen said:
Well people find it entertaining to feed animals especially wild ones. What they probably don’t know is this makes these wild animals accustomed to people and associates us with source of food. They become bolder and then tragedy strikes where someone gets injured. You can try to educate your neighbours or inform the authorities which might sour relations.
Penalties
While feeding this animal seem to be fun, Nparks do not take kindly to people who breached the Wildlife Act
- first-time offenders caught $5,000 fine
- repeat offenders $10,000