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[edit] "Described as" Sus scrofa…?

I've never heard of any species of animal "described" as their species name. Would this mean I, as a human, am described as Homo sapiens? (This bit of grammatical curiosity appears in the "Wild or feral" section.)

71.241.120.149 10:09, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inconsistencies

There are a few inconsistencies in this article:

  • First it says It lives in woodland in northern Europe and then it talks about ..in the southern United States. I also believe they can be found in Asia. So, what's the real distribution of the wild boar? See also Pig and Suidae.
  • The article starts with They are capable of causing serious injury and are best avoided and ends with Wild boars are large but rarely dangerous. One of these statements needs to be clarified.

Nyh 12:07, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

They're rarely dangerous. But if you mess with them or they somehow feel threatened, you're in for a large hospital bill. If they have piglets, they'll see you as a threat too fast. I think this is what the sentence meant: they're capable of damage, but it's not common that they'll do it. Like most other non-hunter animals, i guess. :) portugal 01:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

this entry at issg.org has some good information about wild pigs/ boars. It also notes that adult boars tend to be solitary. Suppafly 22:35, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The Asterix comics give the Latin name of the boar as Singularis porcus, this article gives it as Sus scrofa. Where did the Asterix version come from? — JIP | Talk 09:12, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

The Asterix version is dog Latin, i.e. a joke. -- Securiger 5 July 2005 08:12 (UTC)

Anyone working on this article and able to translate German or French might like to have a look at the much more complete German and French articles. -- Securiger 5 July 2005 08:12 (UTC)


[edit] Japanese link

The Japanese for boar is inoshishi(猪). The Japanese for suidae is inoshishi-ka (猪科). At the moment on Japanese wikipedia, inoshishi redirects to inoshishi-ka, but they are actually distinct concepts just as boar and suidae are in English.. so please leave ja:猪 alone. Zargulon 20:52, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

ja:猪 now redirects to ja:イノシシ, which sounds right. A-giau 18:04, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The map is fully wrong

The map confuses the Wild Boar, Sus scrofa, with other "wild boars" like the pecaris of Central and South America. There are not Wild Boars in these regions, neither in the Subsaharian Africa except feral pigs in Zanzibar and South Africa and introduced animals in Cameroon for sport hunting. Moreover, the Wild Boar became extinct in Libia and Egypt at least 100 years ago, and today it had been reintroduced in Britain. In South East Asia, the Wild Boar only occurs in Indochina, Sumatra, Java and few islands in wich it had been introduced, but not Borneo.--Menah the Great 13:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

(by Tristram): From what I've been reading on enature.com the feral pig (at least in America) has few pure blooded colonies, but mixed bloods are all over the place.

There are wild boars in Sweden now. Update the map please. 62.119.245.98gsg

According to the map, there are no wild boars in Israel, but we have plenty of them. The map is incorrect at least in our region. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.1.40.135 (talk) 20:54, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

The new map is still incorrect in our region. Wild boars are very common in northern Israel, yet that region is not painted on the map. 89.0.185.138 (talk) 20:20, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

There are wild boars in Canada (Saskatchewan) as well. 139.142.73.170 (talk) 00:52, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tusks on females?

In the first section, it says only the females use their tusks for self defence. In the second section, it says only the males have tusks. Which is it? Thanks for your help, ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 17:15, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that too. Anyone going to fix it!

[edit] Chinese Zodiac

There should be some discussion of the Boar as a sign in Chinese (and other derivative) astrology. --Varenius 22:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What does it taste like?

Same as pig?, i wonder.

Not quite... the same way that hare doesn't taste like rabbit. I'd say it tastes like boar. ;) portugal 01:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Not really like Pork, it's less fatty. Overall, it's quite a lot like Beef but, IMO, tastier. (You get it in a lot of restaurants in this part of France!). Marcus22 16:07, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article title "Wild boar"

Shouldn't this be at Wild boar, rather than that being a redirect to Boar? ENeville 23:19, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

To differentiate from tame boars? Can't really see that it makes a difference which page is where. No pressing need for the move so why bother?—Gaff ταλκ 23:16, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Technically, a boar is a male of several animal species including domestic swine, bears, badgers and racoons, whereas the wild boar is a specific animal. User:Nod2003 4:00, 11 April 2008

[edit] Link 7 in hunting section

http://www.agfc.state.ar.us/rules_regs/hunting_regs_feral.html

This web link is no longer valid! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Omegaman66 (talk • contribs) 12:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] pig and boar

A domestic pig is not a boar. A pig come from boar. But the pig have ancestry that are not boars. You can see it in the photos. Nobody say that a horse is a tarpan or a wild cat is a domestic cat or a dog is wolf. The level 2 headline (feral or wild pig) must go to domestic pig article. Anselmocisneros 12:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC) Domestic pig, pig ( genus sus), wild boar, feral pig. This articles are having confusion. I think that someone or a wikiproject must clarify. This one is encyclopedia. It must not to be wrong.

  • Genus sus is not only pig.
  • A wild boar is not a domestic pig or a feral pig.
  • A feral or wild pig is a domestic pig specimen. Today they are put in "wild boar" article Anselmocisneros 13:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

A Boar is term used in farming for a male Domestic Pig. Boars are male, Sows and Gilts are female, and a castrated male Domestic Pig is known as a Barrow. Perhaps some note should be placed at the top of the Boar page to show that male Pigs are known as Boars, yet are not Wild Boars. You have to dig into the article to find this mentioned. Perhaps a redirect pointing at Domestic Pigs using the Boar(domestic) label is in order.172.134.9.235 10:45, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Phylogeny

Given the recent DNA analyses showing that cetaceans are related to ungulates (see article Cetartiodactyla), the scientific classification tree of the wild boar needs to be updated. Any objections before this is done? Bytor 18:53, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Boar Hunting

I'm doing a project on boar hunting and I have no idea when humans started hunting boars. Can someone please tell me????? And by the way, to JIP, Singularis porcus is probably made up. Big M 1:04pm, 11th April 2007.


[edit] 1051 pounds

A wild boar weighing 1051 pounds was reported today, maybe the upper weight estimate of this article should be raised.

That was a hog, gone wild. [1] Not quite the same as a boar. —Gaff ταλκ 23:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
See the article Monster Pig—Gaff ταλκ 23:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image

The lead image on this page is okay. However, this image is much higher res.

. Its available on Wikimedia Commons. Any thoguhts on changing? —Gaff ταλκ 22:41, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] natural enemies

Does the boar have any natural enemies besides man? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.185.225.72 (talk) 21:05, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I'd say not. Perhaps they were once threatened by wolf or bear and, no doubt, the very young could still be taken by some predators if ill or weak and abandoned... but, overall, no, they have no natural predator today. The car. The rifle. (And even the car can come a poor second!) Marcus22 16:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Distribution

Does the wild boar life in South America like the rangemap shows or are that peccari's?Mweites 19:40, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

The range map seems to include native wild boar, introduced wild boar, and what must be also feral pig, which is not the same thing at all. This is misleading. It should show only "proper" wild boar, and ideally should distinguish between native and introduced populations. The historic range would also be useful. The page for this image gives no information as to its source, and the South American distribution (even if of feral pigs) seems very wide, and perhaps does erroneously include peccaries, which are not really pigs at all.--Richard New Forest 20:54, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Delete the image?Mweites 09:22, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hogzilla

Why is this mentioned in this article? It was shown to be part domestic pig, and there are known domestic pigs that have been much larger than that (including one over 2000 pounds). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.148.183.20 (talk) 06:51, 27 November 2007 (UTC)