Had a friend who was a warden with Florida FWC and worked the area of the Fakahatchee Strand down in the 'Glades. Unarmed, taking a stroll and heard some noise in the palmettos. A little shoat of about 5 pounds comes running over to him and....he picked it up. It squealed a little and there came a grunt, just before the earth trembled.
He told me later that he wondered for nearly 45 minutes just what it was he was thinking, that while up in a slender pine sapling that swayed and cracked a little each time momma hit it, inches below his feet. Don't know he ever found an answer to that....but he came away a wiser man.
