Invasive feral hogs in Georgia destroy natural habitats, damage crops, and threaten water quality. With few natural predators and high reproductive rates, feral swine are rapidly expanding their ...
Canada has been dealing with feral pig problems for decades. What was once considered a problem shared by the United States ...
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Escape from Fukushima: Pig-boar hybrids reveal a genetic fast track in the wake of nuclear disaster
A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar. The research shows that domestic pig ...
Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.
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 ...
Hardy and adaptable, domestic pigs could survive long voyages and reproduce quickly, making them ideal livestock for early colonies. Centuries later, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Eurasian wild ...
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Escaped farm pig genes speed wild boar reproduction after Fukushima nuclear disaster
In the ghost towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, a ...
My first experience with wild hogs dates back to a media hunt in Texas a few years ago. Michael Hunter, a renowned wild game chef, returned to camp with a good-sized boar that didn’t quite break the ...
Feral pigs have spread across Australia. The latest numbers show that feral pig populations are present across 45% of the country’s landmass. Ecosystem destruction is rampant due to feral pigs in ...
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