Common name : Wild boar
Scientific name : Sus scrofa
Family : Suidae
Native to : Europe, North-West Africa, Asia
Interesting fact : Breeding females and their young live in ‘sounders’
Conservation status : Critically Endangered
These omnivorous scavengers eat berries, roots, tubers and even small reptiles and birds. The boar has visible tusks, which are concealed in a sow. The female inflicts injury by biting, and the male by charging and slashing with tusks. Gestation is 115 days, and the sow builds a nest out of vegetation and refuse, before farrowing.
