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Hunters and trappers in California have been shocked to discover neon blue flesh beneath the skin of feral pigs, National Geographic reported. The alien-like coloration has come from the animals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young wild boar stands at Joseph D. Grant County Park in Santa Clara County, California. Feral hogs in the state have been found ...

When research scientists tracking P-22, the late beloved lion of Griffith Park, went to change the batteries in his GPS collar in 2014, they found him suffering from mange, a parasitic disease of the ...

Wildlife officials in California are urging hunters and pesticide applicators to exercise greater caution after wild pigs in Monterey County were found to have ingested poison that is used to kill ...

The Legislature is advancing a bill to set a moratorium on the rodenticide diphacinone to save nontarget wildlife. In 2020 the state passed Assembly Bill 1788, setting a moratorium on certain uses of ...

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation will host a virtual public workshop on Sept. 24 to discuss proposed mitigation measures for first- and second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

A new study using American kestrels, a surrogate test species for raptorial birds, suggests that they are at greater risk from poisoning from the rodenticide diphacinone than previous believed. The ...

Feral hogs with "slushie-blue" innards turned up in Monterey earlier this year—and not for the first time. A young wild boar stands at Joseph D. Grant County Park in Santa Clara County, California.