Sus scrofa

Wild boar (Sus scrofa) 1/5
Species ID:	3-4-37-4287-15099
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Suidae
Genus:	Sus
Conservation status:	LC - Least Concern (2006)
Population trend:	Increasing
Links:	ADW / IUCN Red List / Wikipedia

Subspecies

• S. s. scrofa (Central European boar)
• S. s. algira (North African boar)
• S. s. attila (Carpathian boar)
• S. s. cristatus (Indian boar)
• S. s. davidi (Central Asian boar)
• S. s. domesticus (Domestic pig)
• S. s. leucomystax (Japanese boar)
• S. s. libycus (Anatolian boar)
• S. s. majori (Maremman boar)
• S. s. meridionalis (Mediterranean boar)
• S. s. moupinensis (Northern Chinese boar)
• S. s. nigripes (Middle Asian boar)
• S. s. riukiuanus (Ryukyu boar)
• S. s. sibiricus (Trans-Baikal boar)
• S. s. taivanus (Formosan boar)
• S. s. ussuricus (Ussuri boar)
• S. s. vittatus (Banded pig)

Other Names

• Wild swine
• Wild pig
• Common wild pig
• Eurasian wild pig

Physical Description

Avg. length:	Males: 150 - 160 (max 240) cm Females: 140 - 145 cm
Avg. height:	Males: 65 - 95 (max 125) cm Females: 63 - 90 cm
Avg. mass:	Males: 50 - 130 (max 350) kg Females: 45 - 95 kg
Colors:	Dark brown, Light brown, Rusty brown, Yellowish-brown, Olive-fawn, Tan, Black

Lifespan

Avg. lifespan in wild:	9 - 14 years
Avg. lifespan in captivity:	Max 20 years

Reproduction

Mating system:	Polygynous
Breeding season:	November - January
Mode of reproduction:	Viviparous
Gestation period:	108 - 140 days
Avg. litter size:	4 - 6 (max 12) piglets
Parental care:	Female
Breeding interval:	1 year
Maturity:	Males: 4 - 5 years Females: 1 year

Behavior & Ecology

Activity:	Crepuscular, Nocturnal, Diurnal
Sociality:	Communal
Avg. group size:	6 - 20 (max 100) individuals
Group ratio:	1 : 10
Movement:	Sedentary
Avg. territory size:	1.1 - 3.9 km²
Elevation range:	0 - 4,000 m asl
Systems:	Terrestrial
Diet:	Roots, Tubers, Bulbs, Seeds, Nuts, Fruits, Berries, Leaves, Bark, Twigs, Fungi, Worms, Insects, Molluscs, Fish, Rodents, Small mammals, Eggs, Lizards, Snakes, Frogs, Carrion
Predators:	Wolves, Humans, Lynx, Jungle cats, Leopards, Snow leopards, Cougars, Tigers, Martens, Bears, Dholes, Coyotes, Komodo dragons

Habitats

Suitable

• 1.4 Temperate forests
• 1.6 Tropical/subtropical moist lowland forests

Marginal

• 1.1 Boreal forests
• 3.8 Mediterranean-type shrublands
• 14.2 Pasturelands

Distribution

Ecoregion range

Ecozones

• Indomalaya
• Palearctic

Terrestrial Ecoregions

• IM0105 Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
• IM0106 Cardamom Mountains rain forests
• IM0107 Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests
• IM0108 Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests
• IM0109 Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests
• IM0111 Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests
• IM0112 Eastern Java-Bali montane rain forests
• IM0113 Eastern Java-Bali rain forests
• IM0115 Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
• IM0116 Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests
• IM0117 Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests
• IM0118 Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests
• IM0119 Kayah-Karen montane rain forests
• IM0120 Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
• IM0121 Luang Prabang montane rain forests
• IM0124 Malabar Coast moist forests
• IM0126 Meghalaya subtropical forests
• IM0131 Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests
• IM0132 Myanmar coastal rain forests
• IM0134 North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
• IM0135 North Western Ghats montane rain forests
• IM0136 Northern Annamites rain forests
• IM0137 Northern Indochina subtropical forests
• IM0138 Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests
• IM0139 Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests
• IM0140 Northern Triangle subtropical forests
• IM0141 Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests
• IM0142 Orissa semi-evergreen forests
• IM0144 Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests
• IM0145 Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests
• IM0146 Peninsular Malaysian rain forests
• IM0147 Red River freshwater swamp forests
• IM0149 South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests
• IM0150 South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
• IM0151 South Western Ghats montane rain forests
• IM0152 Southern Annamites montane rain forests
• IM0154 Sri Lanka lowland rain forests
• IM0155 Sri Lanka montane rain forests
• IM0157 Sumatran freshwater swamp forests
• IM0158 Sumatran lowland rain forests
• IM0159 Sumatran montane rain forests
• IM0160 Sumatran peat swamp forests
• IM0162 Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests
• IM0163 Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests
• IM0164 Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests
• IM0165 Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests
• IM0166 Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
• IM0167 Western Java montane rain forests
• IM0168 Western Java rain forests
• IM0169 Hainan Island monsoon rain forests
• IM0171 South Taiwan monsoon rain forests
• IM0172 Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests
• IM0201 Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
• IM0202 Central Indochina dry forests
• IM0203 Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests
• IM0204 East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
• IM0205 Irrawaddy dry forests
• IM0206 Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests
• IM0207 Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
• IM0208 Northern dry deciduous forests
• IM0209 South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
• IM0210 Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests
• IM0211 Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests
• IM0212 Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
• IM0301 Himalayan subtropical pine forests
• IM0303 Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests
• IM0304 Sumatran tropical pine forests
• IM0401 Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
• IM0402 Northern Triangle temperate forests
• IM0403 Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
• IM0501 Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
• IM0502 Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
• IM0701 Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
• IM0901 Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh
• IM1301 Deccan thorn scrub forests
• IM1302 Indus Valley desert
• IM1303 Northwestern thorn scrub forests
• IM1304 Thar desert
• IM1401 Godavari-Krishna mangroves
• IM1402 Indochina mangroves
• IM1403 Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves
• IM1404 Myanmar Coast mangroves
• IM1405 Sunda Shelf mangroves
• IM1406 Sundarbans mangroves
• PA0101 Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests
• PA0102 Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests
• PA0401 Appenine deciduous montane forests
• PA0402 Atlantic mixed forests
• PA0404 Balkan mixed forests
• PA0405 Baltic mixed forests
• PA0406 Cantabrian mixed forests
• PA0407 Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
• PA0408 Caucasus mixed forests
• PA0409 Celtic broadleaf forests
• PA0410 Central Anatolian deciduous forests
• PA0411 Central China loess plateau mixed forests
• PA0412 Central European mixed forests
• PA0413 Central Korean deciduous forests
• PA0414 Changbai Mountains mixed forests
• PA0415 Changjiang Plain evergreen forests
• PA0416 Crimean Submediterranean forest complex
• PA0417 Daba Mountains evergreen forests
• PA0418 Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
• PA0419 East European forest steppe
• PA0420 Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
• PA0421 English Lowlands beech forests
• PA0422 Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests
• PA0424 Huang He Plain mixed forests
• PA0426 Manchurian mixed forests
• PA0427 Nihonkai evergreen forests
• PA0428 Nihonkai montane deciduous forests
• PA0430 Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
• PA0431 Pannonian mixed forests
• PA0432 Po Basin mixed forests
• PA0433 Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
• PA0434 Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests
• PA0435 Rodope montane mixed forests
• PA0436 Sarmatic mixed forests
• PA0437 Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests
• PA0439 Southern Korea evergreen forests
• PA0440 Taiheiyo evergreen forests
• PA0441 Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests
• PA0443 Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests
• PA0445 Western European broadleaf forests
• PA0446 Zagros Mountains forest steppe
• PA0501 Alps conifer and mixed forests
• PA0502 Altai montane forest and forest steppe
• PA0504 Carpathian montane forests
• PA0505 Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests
• PA0506 East Afghan montane conifer forests
• PA0507 Elburz Range forest steppe
• PA0508 Helanshan montane conifer forests
• PA0509 Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests
• PA0511 Honshu alpine conifer forests
• PA0512 Khangai Mountains conifer forests
• PA0513 Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
• PA0514 Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
• PA0515 Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests
• PA0516 Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests
• PA0517 Qilian Mountains conifer forests
• PA0518 Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests
• PA0519 Sayan montane conifer forests
• PA0521 Tian Shan montane conifer forests
• PA0606 Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga
• PA0608 Scandinavian and Russian taiga
• PA0609 Trans-Baikal conifer forests
• PA0610 Ural montane forests and tundra
• PA0801 Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
• PA0802 Altai steppe and semi-desert
• PA0803 Central Anatolian steppe
• PA0804 Daurian forest steppe
• PA0805 Eastern Anatolian montane steppe
• PA0806 Emin Valley steppe
• PA0808 Gissaro-Alai open woodlands
• PA0809 Kazakh forest steppe
• PA0810 Kazakh steppe
• PA0811 Kazakh upland
• PA0812 Middle East steppe
• PA0813 Mongolian-Manchurian grassland
• PA0814 Pontic steppe
• PA0816 Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe
• PA0818 Tian Shan foothill arid steppe
• PA0901 Amur meadow steppe
• PA0902 Bohai Sea saline meadow
• PA0903 Nenjiang River grassland
• PA0906 Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
• PA0907 Suiphun-Khanka meadows and forest meadows
• PA0908 Yellow Sea saline meadow
• PA1001 Altai alpine meadow and tundra
• PA1003 Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
• PA1004 Ghorat-Hazarajat alpine meadow
• PA1005 Hindu Kush alpine meadow
• PA1007 Khangai Mountains alpine meadow
• PA1008 Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
• PA1009 Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands
• PA1010 Mediterranean High Atlas juniper steppe
• PA1012 Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
• PA1013 Ordos Plateau steppe
• PA1014 Pamir alpine desert and tundra
• PA1016 Sayan Alpine meadows and tundra
• PA1017 Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows
• PA1018 Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
• PA1019 Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
• PA1021 Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
• PA1022 Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe
• PA1201 Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
• PA1202 Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
• PA1204 Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests
• PA1206 Cyprus Mediterranean forests
• PA1207 Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
• PA1208 Iberian conifer forests
• PA1209 Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
• PA1210 Illyrian deciduous forests
• PA1211 Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
• PA1212 Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets
• PA1213 Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
• PA1214 Mediterranean woodlands and forests
• PA1215 Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
• PA1216 Northwest Iberian montane forests
• PA1217 Pindus Mountains mixed forests
• PA1218 South Appenine mixed montane forests
• PA1219 Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
• PA1220 Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
• PA1221 Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
• PA1222 Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
• PA1301 Afghan Mountains semi-desert
• PA1302 Alashan Plateau semi-desert
• PA1305 Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
• PA1306 Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
• PA1307 Baluchistan xeric woodlands
• PA1308 Caspian lowland desert
• PA1309 Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands
• PA1310 Central Asian northern desert
• PA1311 Central Asian riparian woodlands
• PA1312 Central Asian southern desert
• PA1313 Central Persian desert basins
• PA1316 Great Lakes Basin desert steppe
• PA1317 Junggar Basin semi-desert
• PA1318 Kazakh semi-desert
• PA1319 Kopet Dag semi-desert
• PA1320 Mesopotamian shrub desert
• PA1322 Paropamisus xeric woodlands
• PA1326 Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert
• PA1328 South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
• PA1330 Taklimakan desert