Wild Boars

Monaco and his colleagues free the sow and one piglet, then enter the 20-feet-wide enclosure to catch the other youngsters for study. | On a cool night, zoologist Andrea Monaco walks silently through some sandy shrublands, toward a family of trapped wild boars. | Amid the strong smell of wet boar, mud, and feces, one researcher announces with a smile that the baby he was holding had urinated on him. | Upon seeing him, the eight bristly piglets and their hundred-pound mother try to break through the circular trap's soft net, only to bounce back to the center.