In his revered 1917 poem “The Wild Swans at Coole,” Irish writer William Butler Yeats describes the fabled birds as brilliant ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) is encouraging Americans to hunt and eat five invasive animal species. An article on the USFWS website supported the agency’s efforts to control the ...

When wildlife trapper Dan Burton opened several wild pigs in southern Monterey County this March, he confronted a jarring sight that would trigger statewide health warnings. The meat and fat glowed an ...

A young wild boar stands at Joseph D. Grant County Park in Santa Clara County, California. Feral hogs in the state have been found with bright blue flesh, alarming locals. Photograph By ...

Wild pigs found to have blue meat and fat show signs of having eaten rat poison, California wildlife officials warned. In March, a wildlife trapper reported discovering the dyed tissue in wild pigs ...

Dan Burton has trapped hundreds of wild pigs for clients of his wildlife control company in Salinas, but even he was startled when he cut one of them open and found blue meat inside. “I’m not talking ...

Unexpected exposure to rodenticide is turning California’s wild pigs blue, state authorities say. “I’m not talking about a little blue,” Dan Burton, owner of a wildlife control company in Salinas, ...