The Growing Problem of Invasive Wild Pigs

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Photo: Richard Bartz, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 2.5 license.They go by many names: wild boar, wild hog, razorback, Eurasian boar, feral swine. But whatever you call them, invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are wreaking environmental havoc and spreading rapidly.Read about scientists' predictions for how and where wild pigs will invade in the next decades at the PLOS Ecology Blog: Invasive Wild Pigs Leave a Swath of Destruction Across U.S. - And They Keep Spreading.

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