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 ...

Accelerometers reading the behavior of wild boars can pick up when animals are infected with a fatal virus. Behavioral sensors attached to wild boars have been used to detect when animals are sick ...

Rome — On a cool night in late September, zoologist Andrea Monaco walks silently through the sandy shrublands of the Presidential Estate of Castelporziano, a protected area just outside of Rome, ...