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A wild boar seen limping across the road attracted much sympathy from netizens here.
A video of the boar making its way from one side of the road to the other was shared on the Singapore Wildlife Sightings Facebook group on Apr. 17.
The video showed the boar walking slowly and laboriously, as it appeared to have lost one of its feet. My heart sank when I saw it cross the road. I wonder how it get hurt. hope it will survive. said the video s caption.
How might the boar have gotten injured?
Wild boar do not have natural predators in Singapore, according to NParks.
The scene was shot and put up on the Singapore Wildlife Sightings Facebook group on April 15.
According to the woman who witnessed the scene, the dead monitor lizard carcass was already there when she arrived.
She described the carcass as huge as it laid there half-eaten, with monitor lizards vying for a chance to grab a piece of it.
However, they could not do so uninterrupted.
Monitor lizards fought to eat
The woman wrote that there was a group of monitor lizards that surrounded the carcass and they were trying to join the feast .
But the meal was a constant battle for the monitor lizards that had to fight one another off.