Rosie's Rescue in Yellowhead County, Alta., is wrestling with a prohibited pets bylaw, so it can keep a wild boar named ...

A nearly 15-year invasive species debate has pitted some hog farmers and game hunting locations against the DNR’s efforts to ...

The outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in wild boar North Rhine Westphalia state is not under control yet. The authorities ...

Estonia's wild boar population in Estonia's forests is now too large, and a higher hunting quota, of up to 18,000, is needed ...

Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) are believed to have branched off from wild boars (Sus scrofa) through domestication events that occurred independently in East Asia and the Near East, beginning ...

A Belgian tourist visiting Greece learned the hard way that feeding the local wild pigs was not a good idea, when she nearly ...

Over time, their bodies became smaller, and their brains also became smaller by about one-third.” Body proportion transformation from wild boar to domestic pig. CREDIT: Artwork by Jiajing Wang.

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 10, 2025, Section A, Page 13 of the New York edition with the headline: Rescuing Pets From Peril: 300-Pound Pig Is Saved.

Pigs have long been known, sometimes celebrated, as among the most intelligent of farm animals. Now, a new Dartmouth-led study provides evidence that pigs were first domesticated from wild boars ...

Small hairs grow on the snout of a wild boar at Neuhaus Wildlife Park (symbolic image). German officials confirmed the first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the state of North Rhine ...