Accelerometers reading the behavior of wild boars can pick up when animals are infected with a fatal virus. Behavioral sensors attached to wild boars have been used to detect when animals are sick ...
Over the last few decades, wild boar populations have increased in the urban areas of Barcelona and in other parts of Catalonia. This wild animal is an important reservoir of the hepatitis E virus.
Wild boar roaming the forests around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant now carry domestic pig DNA, a genetic legacy of the chaos that followed the 2011 nuclear disaster. When residents ...