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August 8, 2023

What The Heck Is A Javelina Anyway?

Are javelinas pigs? Some call them “cactus pig” and they certainly have pig-like attributes but they are not a true “pig”. According to biologists with Texas A&M University at Kingsville, a “javelina is not a pig, a […]
December 27, 2017

A Javelina with a Message

No place is more alive just before dark than the cactus-filled thickets of deep South Texas. The evening of Saturday Dec. 27, 2014 was no different. My father and I were hunting our friend Robert Scherer’s […]