Wild boar spotted outside pub
Wild boar in the Forest of Dean spotted outside pub
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A group of wild boar have been spotted wandering past a pub.
The footage was captured outside the Golden Lion in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, on 2 October.
Boar were hunted to extinction 700 years ago, but became established again in the Forest of Dean in the 1990s.
Forestry Commission wildlife rangers monitor numbers in the Forest of Dean each spring and carry out culls, if necessary, to keep the target population to about 400.
The boars have been known to go hunting for food in the local neighbourhoods when foraging becomes harder in the nearby forest.