🐗Wild boar
The wild boar, also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is now one of the widest-ranging mammals in the world as well as the most widespread suiform. It has been assessed as least concern on the IUCN Red List due to its wide range, high numbers, and adaptability to a diversity of habitats. It has become an invasive species in part of its introduced range. Wild boars probably originated in Southeast Asia during the Early Pleistocene and outcompeted other suid species as they spread throughout the Old World.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 135 kg
- Body length
- 1.57 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- 3,370 N
- Maximum lifespan
- 27 years
Everything we know about the Wild boar
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass135 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 130 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length1.57 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Bite force3,370 N2,490–4,839 N · typical rangeDetails ↓Hide ↑
MEASURED at the first molar in 7 FERAL Sus scrofa, mean male mass 62.8 kg, using a novel deformation-based field gauge rather than a load cell. TREAT WITH CAUTION: very high for the body size, small sample, non-standard instrument. Males 3689.9 N, females 3130.8 N. Domestic pigs chewing at the premolars register only 200-560 N (Bousdras et al. 2006, Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 35:663), but that is a chewing force, not a maximum bite.
Source: Sicuro, Oliveira, Hendges & Fonseca 2021, PeerJ 9:e11948 · see citation
Brain mass169 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan27 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 27 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length7.27 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity351 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation115 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 115 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter sizeabout 6COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 7AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range1.18 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density4.96 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l135 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Wild boar yet: shoulder height, top speed.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familySuidae
- ›genusSus
- ›speciesSus scrofa
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- familySuidae
- genusSus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderSuina
- familySuidae
- genusSus
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