Interest about `wild piggies` have been posted since the site began. I`m not too knowlegable about this area of research but from what reading I`ve done on the subject there are no known wild guinea pigs left anywhere in South America.
There are plenty of wild `once domesticated` pigs that have escaped captivity or deliberatly let loose. Over time their colour may have reverted to looking like wild brown / grey pigs. Even so, after even a 100 or so years and thousands of generations they are certainly not in the slightest bit related to the original wild guinea pig.
Its my belief that finding a truely wild pig is like trying to find the `Ark of the Covenant`. In other words, its not out there. All wild guinea pigs are now extinct - dead and lost for ever.
With regards to the Matthuis Asher article which someone posted. I see he talks `around` the subject of wild pigs. He doesn`t mention anything about where the `so called` colonies of wild guinea pigs are in the wild. Its my belief that these types of articles of so called wild guinea pigs are a figment of romantic imagination. However, I`d like to be proved wrong.
If there are wild pigs around I`m sure Sir David Attinborough would have been there and `filmed them`.
The `Asher` single `wild guinea pig` picture is vague and looks like an old monochrome `coloured in`.
Yet once again a false trail that has lead to no-where to explain the where-abouts of wild guinea pigs.
In a way, if there are any left, its best no-one knows where they are because people will only hunt them down just like they have for the past 5oo years.