Old—and oversized—wild hogs are smart and cagey. Equipped with remarkable senses of smell and hearing, they’ve got strong survival instincts. Wild pigs learn to stay away from humans and, when fully ...

A man who was trying to enjoy a relaxing barbecue was attacked by a massive feral pig, its tusk narrowly missing his eye as it knocked him out with the force of the attack. Steven Easton, a man in his ...

Imagine a brutally tough, very hairy creature with sharp tusks that could scare even a cougar. It’s a social animal that travels single-file through thick desert brush in groups called squadrons. If ...

Feral hogs can destroy crops, alter entire ecosystems and affect native species. Wild boars are an invasive type of pig that are largely distributed around the world. They go by many names, including ...

Help feed neighbors and fund facts. Your Thanksgiving gift fuels VTDigger’s reporting and sends 3 meals to a neighbor through the Vermont Foodbank. A feral swine, photographed by a game camera over ...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. When Canadian pig farmers were told in the 1980s that their animals’ gene pool was thin, they turned to wild boars from Britain for fortification, crossing them ...