Wild Boar Facts

Boar Classification and evolution

The boar is a type of wild pig native to the forests of Europe, northwest Africa and is also found in Asia. The boar has a very broad distribution with the estimated number of subspecies Boar 4-25 Of course, it is difficult to classify them all as they can easily cross, so it is widely agreed that there are four main types that are determined for location. They are very similar in size and appearance, but tend to vary slightly in color, depending on geographic location. The boar is a very adaptable animal, and in a variety of different habitats, eats almost everything in her mouth and shaped not only runs fast, but also floats well. Also commonly they are known as the European wild boar or known only boars.

Boar Anatomy and appearance

The boar is a medium-sized mammal with a large head and front end, which leads to a smaller rear. They have a double layer thickness and, of course, which consists of a harder with a lower soft top layer under hirsute. Hair flowing again in the crest of the boar, is also more than others. The boar varies from brown to black, red or dark gray, which usually depends on the individual situation. For example, people boar found in Western Europe, are brown usually where those who live in the forests of Eastern Europe may be completely black. The boar has very poor vision due to their very small eyes, but also have a long, straight nose, which gives them an incredible sense of smell.

Distribution and habitat boar

The boar is the most widespread land mammal on earth, as it is the Mother region stretching from Western Europe, with Japan in the east, and down to the rainforests of Indonesia in the south. The four separate subspecies are determined by their location to inhabit Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia; another is in North Asia and Japan; the third lives in the rainforests of India, Southeast Asia and the Far East, the latter was only in Indonesia. The boars are found in a variety of different habitats including tropical forests and grasslands, but tend to be deciduous hardwood forests, where vegetation is favoring incredibly dense.

Boar behavior and lifestyle

Boar are nocturnal animals that only come out at night looking for food. They spend about 12 hours of sleep in a dense nest of leaves during the day, before waking to find an evening meal under. Female boars are social animals inhabit relatively loose areas in groups as a signal generator, which can contain from 6-30 people known. Sounders of breeding females and their young and can be found in the vicinity of the other groups often, even if the two should not be confused as a rule. However, males are solitary for most of the year, with the exception, if they find that during the breeding season in the vicinity of the two signal generators and indeed other males. Boar man struggling to compete for the opportunity to mate with a female.

Boar reproductive cycles and life

Once the boar mated female gives birth to 4-6 piglets in a nest in a bush, found in the leaves, grasses and moss. The mother remains with her piglets set for the first few weeks in order to protect them from hungry predators. Boar piglets are incredibly amazing animals as light brown skin, with cream and brown stripes running the length of the back. Although these strips begin to disappear when the piglets are 3-4 months old, become debris on the forest floor camouflage very good, young boar. Once they are two months old, the piglets from the nest start venturing short foraging trips before age independently and almost in the red at about 7 months. Boar skin coloration does not reach adulthood until the animal is one year old.

Boar Diet and prey

The boar is an omnivore that feeds mainly on plants. The plant material comprises about 90% of feral pigs in the diet because they feed on young leaves, berries, herbs and fruits, and dig roots and tubers of earth with their hard noses. Life in highly seasonal areas, wild boar had to adapt to changing fruits and flowers, and it is known that nuts rich in protein (such as acorns), which are available in the fall and prepare to favor the previous winter. However, they will eat almost anything that fits in the mouth and supplement their diet by eating eggs, mice, lizards, worms and even snakes. Boar also happy ending murder of another abandoned animal.

Predators boar and threats

Because of their incredibly large circulation, they are wild boars victim numerous predators of all shapes and sizes, in their natural habitat. The big cats like leopards, lynxes and tigers are among the most common predators of the wild boar, along with other large carnivores such as wolves and bears, but also people. Although their numbers in the wild have declined rapidly in much of its natural range in other areas such as mainland Europe, Poland and Pakistan, there was actually a significant increase in population and the exact reasons are not They are known. It is believed to be due to a variety of things, including the reduction of its main enemies, the most protection and most regulated of them in their regions of origin hunting.

Boar Interesting Facts and Features

The snout of the boar is probably one of the characteristics of that animal, and other wild pigs, which establishes these mammals of others. The snout of the boar has a disk of cartilage in the end, the prenasal called for small bone Hogsnot as an excavator used if it allows the search for food is supported. All boars have tusks in the lower lip, although males are larger than the female, and indeed to the curve of his mouth. Even more interesting, however, men also have a gap in the upper lip tusk, which actually affects the life of a knife sharpener, sharpen constantly male lower tusks, which are up to 6 cm long.

Boar relationship with people

Boars now cultivated in many places for their meat, but they have been hunted for their tusks sharp as some trophies awards centuries, which means that populations was even extinct in some areas, such as Britain. Today, however, people have the boar to many different countries around the world introduced, purely so that they are hunted and eaten. These include Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Sweden and Norway. They have in fact created people for so long that the boar is actually the father of the common domestic pigs. Although a number of wild boar populations in the world actually increases the species it has been threatened in its entirety by the loss of habitat to humans mainly through deforestation and the growing settlements.

Boar protection status and life today

Today, the boar was by IUCN as a species that appears not in danger of extinction in the wild in the near future. Population figures are generally, but everything suffers mainly due to hunting and habitat loss. In a number of areas, but it has not really been hard courts in wild boar populations. Possibly due to the loss of many of its major predators such as wolves and tigers.

Boar Facts

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Artiodactyla

Family: swine

Genre: Your

Scientific name: Sus scrofa

Common name: Wild Boar

Name (s): Wild Boar, Wild Hog, Boar

Group: Mammal

Number of species: 4

Location: in Europe and Asia

Habitat: deciduous hardwood forests

Color: Brown, Red, Black, Gray

Skin Type: Skin

Size (H): 55cm - 100cm (21.6in - 39.3in)

Weight: 80kg - 175kg (€ 176 - £ 386)

Top speed: 48kph (30 mph)

Diet: Omnivorous

Prey: berries, roots, Worms

Predators: tigers, wolves, human

Lifestyle: Nocturnal

Group behavior: Sounder

Life span 15 - 20 years

Sexual maturation: 7 - 10 months

The gestation period: 3 - 4 months

Average litter size 5

Young names: Piglet

Weaning age 2-3 Months

Conservation Status: Endangered

Estimated population size: Sustainable

Most important hazards: habitat loss

The most striking feature: Long, hard and straight snout

Fun Fact: Men have a top Fang sharpen bottom!