I think I will follow your idea Wong and carry a walking stick instead of a knife etc in my bag or waist. It'll help me to walk and I can quickly use it on any wild animals.
TS, Jonathan and I bumped into a few baby wild boars in our trip to Johor looking for N. rafflesiana. But we didn't give it a second thought to stay and look for the mother boar. The piglets jumped out of the bushes in front of us. It was almost comical because all three of us just froze for a second, then somebody shouted wild boar... and we just ran as fast as we could out of the belukar like a 100-meter sprinter. No playing around if you meet wild boars. They target in between your legs with their extended teeth or tusk from the front. I may want to have another child with my wife in the near future.
Yes, I sometimes think about wild boar hunters too. Don't want them to mistake me for a wild boar.