John Webster wrote:...Panthers, Wild hogs, rattlesnakes, coppermouths, black widow and brown recluse spiders but not bears.....
WEll, uh, er, (gulp), I hadn't thought of those other critters, though I do know of a friend, Roy Baker, Binghamton, NY, who was bitten by a Recluse spider and has suffered for quite a while from its effects. Never thought about snakes, though, among those trees and underbrush, for some ditzy reason.
The wild hogs/boars I have heard about, both from the farmers in the area of those Upstate NY photos I took, as well as from a map published with the roaming territory of boars, nowadays, which apparently even includes Coyotes and some other dog-like critters that are roaming freely in NJ, demonstrating their taste for toddlers (one of which was boldly pursued along with his mother up her driveway recently) and house pets, such as small yapper dogs and cats.
Life is complicated.
da Murph