The direct impacts of climate change are also important. Shorter, drier (less snow), and warmer winters aid in pig survival.

Wild hogs aren’t just a nuisance — they’re one of North America’s most destructive invasive species. With no natural ...

HorseFactBook.com advises that horses and pigs don't make good companions, and that they should be separated by a fence.

Research from the University of Queensland has found the sex of feral pigs and seasonal conditions are likely to intensify ...

Scotland's nature agency NatureScot refers to these animals as feral pigs, and said they include hybrids - a mix of boar and domestic pigs following interbreeding. The populations include animals ...

Saskatoon Morning5:52Wild boars and how they've taken the prairies by storm Wild boars were purposely crossbred with pink ...

Feral hogs are often called wild hogs despite one main difference. The root of the word “feral” implies the species was once domesticated. Therefore, many feral hogs originated from ...

A genetic study has revealed that farmers in India’s Gangetic plains who lived during the same period as the Indus Valley Civilisation domesticated wild boars — giving rise to one of the three ...

Researchers at the Friedrich Loeffler Institute and the University of Greifswald in Germany have gained new insights into how the African swine fever (ASF) virus infiltrates the immune system of ...

No new human cases of avian influenza have been reported, and poultry infections are low so far in March. But infections in ...