“Wild boars were probably attracted to human settlements as people started settling down and began growing their own food,” ...

Explore the fascinating story of pig domestication and its role in human history and agricultural development.

In view of the ongoing outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Nagaland, the Department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Sciences (DoAH&VS) has advised all pig farmers and stakeholders to adopt the ...

Researchers found pigs consumed cooked foods and harbored human parasites, indicating close relationships with humans.

A study just published in Animal Cognition by Ivan Norscia, a biological anthropologist at the University of Turin, in Italy, and his colleagues, looked at how a group of 104 domestic pigs went ...

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 in ...

They root through farmland, tear up native landscapes, spread disease, and multiply rapidly. Wild pigs are fast becoming one ...

As it turns out, even domestic pigs can turn feral in short order, relying on the ancient boar genes still encoded in their DNA. These “stealth genes,” as scientists call them , can be ...

Land managers and other authorities are ramping up efforts to trap and kill the destructive, non-native animals ...

Although domestic pig welfare is typically measured based on their physical condition, a study published in Animal Behavior and Cognition proposed the measurement of play as an alternative metric.

"Wild boar farmers were told to cross the wild boar with domestic pigs to make a bigger and longer animal." "There are no native pigs in Canada," said Brook. "Anything that sounds like a pig and ...