Hawaiian Wild Boars Around Hawaii Five-0 2010's North Shore of O'ahu

Summary: Hawaiian wild boars would have witnessed shots at a surfer were they not killed on Hawaii Five-0 2010 Season One's sixth episode Ko'olauloa Oct. 25, 2010.

wild boar (Sus sofra); Maui, Hawaii; Monday, Dec. 17, 2007, 10:18:35: drazz: drazz, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

Kapu hunting areas that accommodate an accomplished assassin in the Hawaii Five-0 2010 active police procedural series episode Ko'olauloa: North Shore of O'ahu Oct. 25, 2010, abound with ambushed Hawaiian wild boars.

Director Matt Earl Beesley and writers Carol Barbee, Kyle Harimoto, Alex Kurtzman, Peter M. Lenkov and Roberto Orci broach boar-killing shooters in Season One's sixth episode. The Hawaii Five-0 task force, from the 1968-1980 series created by Leonard Freeman (Oct. 31, 1920-Jan. 20, 1974), culls a corpse from O'ahu's north shore surfers. Detective Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim) describes the shooter's Pūpūkea ridgeline base as "This whole area is a hunting ground. It's crawling with wild boar."

Kelly explains the Kapu as "Part lifeguard, part unofficial security force for the North Shore. Like protectors for the island" to Detective Danny Williams (Scott Caan).

Hawaiian wild boars flourish as Suidae (from Latin sūs, "hog" and -idae, "appearance") family members on Hawai'i, Kaho'olawe, Kaua'i, Maui, Moloka'i, Ni'ihau and O'ahu, not Lāna'i.

Hawaiian wild boars, hogs, pigs and swines, also grouped as feral whether captivity or domesticity goes respectively after or before wildness, optimally get 10-plus-year life cycles. Physically and sexually mature 18-plus-month-old females have two- to three-day oestrus (from Greek οἶστρος, oîstros, "frenzy") within 21-day oestrous (reproductive) cycles and 112- to 120-day gestations. Hawaiian wild boars, identified in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), incline toward four to 14 21.16- to 35.27-ounce (600- to 1,000-gram) piglets.

Hawaiian wild boars juggle three- to four-month suckling durations for spring-born piglets, vulnerable with one canine and one milk incisor per jaw half and without underfur.

Hawaiian wild piglets from November through January breeding and March through May farrowing seasons keep neonatal coats and lactation schedules the first three to four months.

Two-week-olds leave grassy, leafy, twiggy nests for mother-led morning and afternoon forays for carrion, crops, fruits, grasses, invertebrates, mollusks, nuts, roots, seeds, soil, tubers and vertebrates. Wild piglets manifest brown to rust-brown fur with pale-banded backs and flanks and, as eight-month-olds, mature brown, downy fur under coarse-bristled, long-haired black, gray, white coats. Wild boars, scientifically named Sus scrofa ("hog sow"), net permanent teeth as one- to two-year-olds and maximum 100-member, 148.26- to 4,9542.11-acre (60- to 2,000-hectare) home territories.

Mature Hawaiian wild boars observe 24.86-mile (40-kilometer) hourly speeds; 59.06-plus-inch (150-plus-centimeter) jumps; 77.16- to 771.62-pound (35- to 350-kilogram) weights; 21.65- to 43.31-inch (55- to 110-centimeter) lengths.

Hawaiian wild boars possess broad, long ears; deep-set, small eyes; big heads; humped upper backs; muscled, short, thick necks and trunks; short, thin legs; underdeveloped hindquarters.

Hoofed membership in the Artiodactyla (from ἄρτιος, ártios, "even" and δάκτυλος, dáktylos, "finger/toe") even-toed order qualifies Hawaiian wild boars for equal weight-bearing third and fourth toes. The International Union for Conservation of Nature relegates wild boars to least concern status despite fragmented, lost, polluted broadleaf forest, cropland, grassland, rainforest and woodland habitats. Evergreen, mixed, oak, reed, tropical forests, jungles and woodlands sustain Hawaiian wild hogs at humid, moist 2.29- to 5,323.49-foot (0.7- to 1,622.6-meter) altitudes above sea level.

Fresh-meat and trophy hunters for Hawaiian lū'au food-filled, fun festivities and money-motivated assasins trouble Hawaiian wild boars more than degraded, lost habitats above lond, windward Ko'olauloa.

The surfing community joins the Hawaii Five-0 special task force team at Waimea Bay in a ceremony honoring Ian Adams (Mark Cunningham), H50 Officer Kono Kalakaua's (Grace Park) former pro-surfing team leader, in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0, season 1, episode 6, Ko'olauloa ("North Shore of Oahu"): Daniel Dae Kim @ Daniel Dae Kim, via Facebook Oct. 30, 2010

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

wild boar (Sus sofra); Maui, Hawaii; Monday, Dec. 17, 2007, 10:18:35: drazz, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/cluefree/2447764426/

The surfing community joins the Hawaii Five-0 special task force team at Waimea Bay in a ceremony honoring Ian Adams (Mark Cunningham), H50 Officer Kono Kalakaua's (Grace Park) former pro-surfing team leader, in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0, season 1, episode 6, Ko'olauloa ("North Shore of Oahu"): Daniel Dae Kim @ Daniel Dae Kim, via Facebook Oct. 30, 2010, @ https://www.facebook.com/136577846385452/photos/a.141030425940194/152229034820333/

For further information:

Daniel Dae Kim @ Facebook. 30 October 2010. "Added a new photo." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/136577846385452/photos/a.141030425940194/152229034820333/

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