Half-boar, half-pig hybrids that reproduce incredibly quickly are making their way south towards the Canada-U.S. border.

And they reproduce quickly. A sow can have six piglets in a litter and raise two litters in a year. That means 65% or more of a wild pig population could be killed every year and it will still ...

Pigs have an impressive breeding rate—some research suggests that up to 75% of the population needs to be eliminated to effectively eradicate it, thanks to how good they are at reproducing—and ...

The wild pigs can spread diseases to hog farms like African swine fever, as the animals reproduce quickly. AP But the situation isn’t hopeless everywhere and a few US states have eliminated them.

Dr. Ryan Brook of the Wild Pig Research Project told Field & Stream - whose site I have now bookmarked. But larger bodies and more prolific reproduction created new problems. Progress often does.

Pigs have three litters a year and can have between eight and 11 piglets in a litter. “Even if you had five feral pigs and we have more than five feral pigs out there reproducing, ...

Pigs, swine, hogs, boars. Wild, feral, invasive, non-native. Whatever words you use, these tusked omnivores are more widespread in the United States than ever before. Piglets sleep on their mother ...