article_snippet: Packs of wild boar are hunting newborn lambs in Britain, experts say.
article_snippet: But in recent weeks, groups have reportedly killed four lambs.
article_snippet: Clare Harvey, a vet, saw six boar eat a lamb near the village of Lydbrook.
article_snippet: She said: ‘It was quite brutal, with the carcass already having been skinned and the piglets tearing the carcass limb from limb. '
article_snippet: We know pigs are omnivores and devour carrion, but this suggested pigs may have developed a taste for fresh meat. '
article_snippet: The Forestry Commission said The Forestry Commission had heard three further reports of the animals killing and eating lambs in Bream, Parkend and Yorkley, Gloucestershire.
article_snippet: In recent weeks, boar have reportedly killed four lambs.
article_snippet: In a fourth incident a boar ate a ewe and a boar still-born lamb - though a boar is not known if they were both already dead.
article_snippet: Wild boar became extinct in England 300 years ago, but have been reintroduced through escapes and deliberate releases.
highlights_snippet: Packs of wild boar are hunting newborn lambs in Britain, experts claim .
  
highlights_snippet: But in recent weeks, groups of boar have reportedly killed four lambs .
  