Hi ClaireW17
That’s lovely that you have hoglets there. If there is a hog circling another it sounds as if the adult may be a male. The young ones may already be going it alone. It’s hard to say from a short description on the Forum – likewise impossible to say re. the behaviour, with so little information and not being able to see exactly what was happening.
Normally the male hogs don’t take much notice of the youngsters, but I had an adult male here once who made advances to a really very young hoglet – and that was on several different occasions on different nights. The male in question was one of the less dominant of the males who visited and maybe he never got a chance to make advances to any of the adult females. The hoglet was very precocious and didn’t seem to mind at all, although his advances were never going to lead anywhere. So maybe something similar was happening there.
There is a lot of supposition this suggestion, but it’s possible.
It’s lovely to have hoglets around – they can be very entertaining! Happy hog watching!
