| Banded Pig Temporal range: Early Pleistocene - Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Suidae |
| Genus: | Sus |
| Species: | S. scrofa |
| Subspecies: | S. s. vittatus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Sus scrofa vittatus Boie, 1828 |
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The Banded Pig (Sus scrofa vittatus), also known by various other names including Malay Pig and Island Pig, is a subspecies of the wild boar found in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and many Indonesian islands, including Sumatra, Java, and the Lesser Sundas as far east as Komodo. There are also feral populations in the region, and it has been domesticated. The males have tusks, but the females do not. They are omnivores that will eat herbs, roots, tubers, rhizomes, grasses, bird eggs, small rats and mice, lizards, frogs, birds (such as juvenile ducks and partridges), annelids, beetles, termites, ants, and maggots.