Culkah (1948) A Pastoral
Survey . The Pastoral Review and Graziers' Record, January 21,
1948.
'Culkah' reported in 1948 that there were many wild pigs in
inland Queensland. Specific details include:
- "Wild pigs infest the Cooper channels".
- In 1897 the Flinders River, downstream of Hughenden, was a
"veritable piggery".
- In 1918 pigs had ploughed large sections of the river frontage
in the lower Burdekin.
- In approximately 1908, on the Laura, Jack, Normanby, and other
coastal streams north of Cooktown, wild pigs numbered thousands.
"... they had run out to such an extent that the long lean head and
high shoulder, with little body behind those portions, made them
look like small hyenas, while for absolute savagery they had no
equal".
