Finally, improved animal husbandry reduced disease among domestic pigs, thereby reducing the incidence among wild hogs. Few purebred Eurasian wild boars are left today, but they have hybridized ...

Pigs are already an incredibly intelligent species and while they can be fairly tame as domesticated animals, feral hogs are ...

which were domesticated at roughly the same time. Pigs appear to have thrived in areas with access to water and forests where they could forage for nuts. These omnivorous animals not only provided ...

In 1988, with assistance from farmers, veterinarians and ethologists who specialize in the natural behavior of farmed animals, AWI developed its first set of pig husbandry standards. In 1989, AWI ...