Perhilitan: Pulau Besar wild boar blood test results out next week

MELAKA (Bernama): Forensic test results of blood samples taken from wild boar roaming in Pulau Besar here following reports that its population was growing at an alarming rate will be made known next week.

Melaka Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) director Mohd Hasdi Husin said blood samples of five wild boars taken last Thursday (Nov 7) have been sent to the department’s National Wildlife Forensic Laboratory in Kuala Lumpur to confirm whether the animals on the island were Sus barbatus from Indonesia, or Sus scrofa from Malaysia, both of which are wild pig species.