The wildlife you see on your next hiking trip? The rustle in your backyard at night? It might not be a raccoon or a deer. A steady increase in the population of wild pigs — a marauding, non-native ...

Pigs have a reputation for being lazy. "They're always in their pen," people say. "They just love eating and laying in the mud." But that couldn't be less true. Just take two pigs named Prissy and ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate "super pigs" in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking ...

Wild or feral pigs are a challenge in many parts of the US. Various states have taken different approaches to deal with them, ...

Marcus Lashley is an associate professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Florida. They go by many names – pigs, hogs, swine, razorbacks – but whatever you call them, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) ...

The have many names: feral swine, wild boar, even razorbacks. Different states refer to them by their different labels. In Indiana, it's wild pigs. Regardless where they are and what they're called, ...

Dan Burton has trapped hundreds of wild pigs for clients of his wildlife control company in Salinas, but even he was startled when he cut one of them open and found blue meat inside. “I’m not talking ...