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Wild pig-like animals are tearing up an Arizona golf course. The internet is delighted | Salon.com

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She’s an eco-vengeance iconoclast who loves coyote pee and running at manic speeds. She’s an unstoppable chaos queen with a stink-nipple on her butt, who turns luxury Arizona golf courses into free range charcuterie boards for her grub-worm girl dinner. She’s a guerilla class-warfare legend whose mating call sounds like the hissing warb-garble of a cappuccino machine milk-steamer. She’s the internet’s most beloved trash-eating ungulate — the uncompromising, the indefatigable, the lovely javelina. And if you haven’t seen her species’ latest tour of havoc through a high-end Sedona golf course, you’re missing out. A massive herd of “between 100 - 150” wild javelina — a.k.a. skunk pigs — have been terrorizing the water-guzzling Seven Canyons Golf Club in the state’s Coconino National Forest, leaving club owners searching for solutions in the wake of the javelina’s destruction for the past six weeks. Also known as collared peccaries, 30 to 50 hellcatting javelina squadrons have been razing

commentary Wild pig-like animals are tearing up an Arizona golf course. The internet is delighted Unstoppable javelinas love coyote pee like it’s “bacon bits in their salad.” Here's why golf courses are peeved By Rae Hodge Staff Reporter Published October 27, 2023 7:15AM (EDT) Collared Peccary or Javelina in the grass (Getty Images/G Parekh) Facebook X Reddit Email Save She’s an eco-vengeance iconoclast who loves coyote pee and running at manic speeds. She’s an unstoppable chaos queen with a stink-nipple on her butt, who turns luxury Arizona golf courses into free range charcuterie boards for

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