I wonder if, when I saw those as a kid, that was a nest of piglets or if they're just tiny due to lack of food. I don't think I'd wanna go against a 250lb wild boar, that's for sure! When my parents decided that they wanted to raise some piggies, my father & I went to a mini-ranch in the mountains where we lived & chose a couple of piglets. One of the hands distracted the sow & told me to jump in there, grab a piglet, and toss it over the fence as they couldn't separate the sow from her babies. So, he poked her (she had to weigh in close to 300lbs, seriously) with a board and I jumped over the fence & made a dash for a piglet. Grabbed one of them by the leg & tossed backwards like a football (tossin' the ol' pigskin?). Anyways, the piglet squealed (understandably) and that enraged the sow. Holy crap, I never have moved so fast in my life! I literally jumped over the 6 ft fence in 1 leap and nearly lost my shoe as she'd bit down on my foot! My father clobbered her with a 2x4, but that didn't slow her down. Had to wait about 1/2 an hour for her to calm down before I could do it again for the 2nd piggie. Luckily I grabbed 2 boars (which is what my father wanted) the first try. And since I got to risk my life to get the piglets, I got to name them: Bacon & PorkChop. We kept them for about 6 months, getting them in April & having them slaughtered in October. Bacon dressed out at over 210lbs and PorkChop was about 180lbs, all lean meat. The butcher warned us to cook these piggies slow & over a low fire 'cuz there was very little fat on them. They were good piggies, but damn did they taste better! We had so much pork... our 2 freezers were full (which is good because Father didn't get a deer or an elk that year) for EVER it seemed like!
