African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are native to sub-Saharan Africa. Between 1997 and 2012, their numbers dropped by half in some areas.

“Puppy-dog eyes didn’t just evolve for us, in domestic dogs,” says comparative anatomist Heather Smith. Her team’s work has thrown a 2019 finding 1 that the muscles in dogs’ eyebrows ...

The researchers found that not only do African wild dogs have the same "puppy-dog eye" muscles as domestic dogs, but these muscles are just as developed as those in domestic canines.

African wild dogs might use facial expressions to communicate with each other as they hunt in packs on the savanna. Arno Meintjes via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED Puppy-dog eyes are ...

Accelerometer-based detection of African swine fever infection in wild boar. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023; 290 (2005) DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1396 ...

A wild boar burst into the lobby of a four-star hotel in Nanjing in late October, struggling to escape on the slick floor before security captured it, according to state media reports. Two days ...

Some farmers, unable to sell their stock, simply released their hybrid pigs into the wild. Today those pigs’ descendants roam the Canadian prairie provinces, a horde some 62,000 strong.