Wild hogs have an exceptional sense of smell and can detect human presence from miles away. The best trappers take extreme precautions to eliminate scent cues that could alert the animals to danger.

Wild hogs are most active in the evening. Since human activity is reduced at night, this means that hogs may feel comfortable wandering onto a property that they wouldn’t enter in the daytime ...

Michael Bodenchuk, director of the Texas Wildlife Services Program, notes that in 2009 the state killed 24,648 wild hogs, nearly half of them from the air (a technique most effective in areas ...