Wild Boar
Sus scrofa
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 33,649
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Wild boar”.