Lacombe County has taken its sights off a new bylaw banning wild boar – at least for now. County council asked administration ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

"The estimated number of feral pigs varies from 2.4 to 4.4 million in Australia, which creates a risk to domestic pigs if there is a disease incursion. "Disease outbreaks could devastate farmer's ...

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

Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ ...

The detection of bird flu in a sheep is another sign that the H5N1 virus is adapting to hop to new hosts ...

Wild boars were purposely crossbred with pink domestic pigs to make a larger animal with a faster reproductive rate. The barrel-like bodies of wild boars can weigh up to 300 pounds. Their size and ...