Javelinas are having a moment. If you’ve seen the news, you may have read about the squadrons of these piglike animals which have been tearing up golf courses in Arizona, much to the dismay of golfers ...

The first javelina I ever saw was chasing one of my dogs. Poor old Sounder did not know quite how to handle the situation so he ran back to hide behind me. This wasn’t the first time I had been put ...

Imagine a brutally tough, very hairy creature with sharp tusks that could scare even a cougar. It’s a social animal that travels single-file through thick desert brush in groups called squadrons. If ...

Memes don’t have to make sense. In fact, they usually don’t. For example: A 12-second video of a javelina running really fast down a residential Tucson, Arizona street was shared to Facebook by Damion ...

Why can’t people and peccaries just get along? Month after month, year after year for the 17 years I’ve lived in Tucson — and long before that — the two species have been after each other, and there ...

A 68-year-old woman was bitten by a javelina as it fought with her dogs in southern Arizona, wildlife officials said. The javelina bit the woman from Pearce on the shin, the Arizona Game & Fish ...

A 68-year-old woman was bitten on the leg by a javelina in Arizona as it fought with her dogs, state wildlife officials are reporting. The woman, who was bitten on the shin, was treated at hospital ...