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 Oc
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Skull of Sus strozzii (Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze), a Pleistocene suid that was outcompeted by S. scrofa
Wild boar (left) and domestic pig (right) skulls: Note the greatly shortened facial region of the latter.
Male wild boar-domestic pig hybrid
Sus is the genus of domestic and wild pigs, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae. Sus includes domestic pigs and their ancestor, the common Eurasian wild boar, along with various other species.
Wild boar
…3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Placentalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Suidae Genus: Sus Species: S. scrofa Binomial name Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 Reconstructed native range of wild boar (green) and introduced populations (blue) except in…
Sus Barbatus, the Bornean Bearded Pig
Skull of a domestic pig (Sus domesticus)
Feral pigs (razorbacks) in Florida