Residents of one Malayan island have a rather unusual problem on their hands   – lots   of baseless Sus scrofa are invading Pulau Besar and ravaging their crop . Then , diverge for the mainland and other coastal areas .

But bizarrely , the trespasser are believed to have come up from Sumatra , Indonesia . This is a journeying that   would require   crossing   tens of kilometers of water .

Malaysia and Indonesia   are separated by the Malacca Strait , a large stretch of water that is65 kilometers ( 40 miles)at its narrowest – i.e. a distance equivalent to 6.5Olympic marathon swim races . And yet , the leading theory , concord tolocal report , is that the wild boar swam there . It ’s an impressive accomplishment , even for a species as comfortable in water and adept at swimming as the wild pig .

The island ’s fishers tell narration of " honker in the dark " make out in the coastal waters each dark . However , asthe Guardianreports , there is also the chance that they snuck aboard merchant vessels vessels and arrive on the island as stowaways . Regardless of how they got there , the uninvited guests have causeda lot of headache .

" The seabo(a)rne invasion of wild boars leaves us in desperation as the animal population is increasing , "   said Norhizam Hassan Baktee , chairman of the Malacca agriculture committee , local mediareports .

" The mystical island of Pulau Besar here has witnessed widespread damage from the ‘ migration ' of 12 of these wild wild boar , include piglets . "

The factory farm commission has air care that the swine may soon outnumber people on this sparsely populated isle . The Malacca ’s   department of wildlife has said faculty will be send to scoot the animals , according tolocal reports .

As   Billy Higginbotham of Texas A&M University toldNational Geographic , pigs will swim in search of better pastures or food stock and to bunk danger . The Bahama ’s swimming pig are far-famed , there aremany a   videoof wild boar swimming close to the Italian seashore , and even a story of one adventuresome soal that traveled11 kilometers ( 7 miles)from France to   Alderney in the Channel Islands , UK .

However , whether they would wangle to cross the 65 kilometre plus it would require to journey from Sumatra to   Pulau Besar is another matter .