The trap in the video worked because it was strategically designed to capture an entire sounder (the term for a group of wild hogs) at once. Instead of a traditional box trap, which often catches ...

Biologists say trapping is the most effective way to take out feral hogs: you can kill the entire group in one go. But Pulley said you need a lot of tools in your toolbox to do the job ...

the method has fewer advocates than trapping, the other approved technique. Trappers bait a cage with food meant to attract wild hogs but not other animals (fermented corn, for example).