Have you ever heard the expression “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck?" Although this saying has some truth to it, we should also remember ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, a 58-year-old dog walker was treated for a broken leg after being blindsided and charged by a javelina in Tucson. The Tucson resident was treated and released, but this attack is ...

A javelina tried to bust through a pet door at an Arizona home, but it didn’t get very far. The pig-like animal backed out with the dog door frame stuck around its body. The creature attempted to ...

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 ...