by admin | Mar 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
Last month, as part of “National Invasive Species Awareness Week” (February 24-28), the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service recommended eating wild pigs and other introduced species as a way to reduce their numbers. Besides the obvious point that controlling...
by admin | Mar 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Dr. James Beasley and researchers from the University of Georgia for these photographs of wild pigs’ nesting sites. Did you know that pigs are the only ungulates (mammals with hooves) that regularly build nests? The researchers studied female pigs at...
by admin | Feb 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Questions about the origin of the American flamingo in Florida were put to rest in 2018 after a study confirmed that flamingos were present in Florida in large numbers in the 1800s before disappearing due to plume hunting. Researchers searched through museum...
by admin | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Nonnative species do not belong in [any state] and definitely shouldn’t be encouraged — that is undoubtedly the policy of state wildlife agencies. Yet, nonnative birds, fish and mammals are significant sources of revenue in many states. Native to China,...
by admin | Dec 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
We have been told for so long that wild pigs are dangerous and destructive that they are now used as a metaphor for describing other problem animals. In an October 2025 article on the news site SFGATE.com about the growth of the mute swan population in California, we...
