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  2. Wild boar - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] The wild boar has a long history of association with humans, having been the ancestor of most domestic pig breeds and a big-game animal for millennia. Boars have also re- hybridized in recent decades with feral pigs ; these boar–pig hybrids have become a serious pest wild animal in the Americas and Australia .

  3. Feral pig - Wikipedia

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    A feral pig is a domestic pig which has gone feral, meaning it lives in the wild. The term feral pig has also been applied to wild boars, which can interbreed with domestic pigs. [1] They are found mostly in the Americas and Australia. Razorback and wild hog are sometimes used in the United States in reference to feral pigs or boar–pig hybrids.

  4. List of pig breeds - Wikipedia

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    "Breeds of Livestock - Swine Breeds". ansi.okstate.edu. Oklahoma State University Dept. of Animal Science. Ekarius, Carol (2008). Storey's Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep, Goats, Cattle and Pigs. Storey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60342-036-5

  5. Category:Wild boars - Wikipedia

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    Wild Boar of Westmorland; This page was last edited on 29 June 2022, at 11:56 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  6. Japanese boar - Wikipedia

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    Japanese boar at Tama Zoo Emperor YĆ«ryaku hunts a wild boar. It features prominently in Japanese culture, where it is widely seen as a fearsome and reckless animal, to the point that several words and expressions in Japanese referring to recklessness include references to boars.

  7. Indian boar - Wikipedia

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    Wild Boars in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India Wild boar with piglets in Kaziranga National Park, Assam. The animal has interacted with humans in the Indian Subcontinent since the Upper Paleolithic, with the oldest depiction being a cave painting in Bhimbetaka rock shelters, [5] and it occasionally appears in Hindu mythology.

  8. Central European boar - Wikipedia

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    The Central European boar (Sus scrofa scrofa) is a subspecies of wild boar, currently distributed across almost all of mainland Europe, with the exception of some northern areas in both Scandinavia and European Russia and the southernmost parts of Greece. [2]

  9. Mangalica - Wikipedia

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    The name Mangalica derives from Serbo-Croatian, meaning approximately roll-shaped and suggesting the animals are well fed. [4] The blonde Mangalica variety was developed from older, hardy types of Hungarian pig (Bakonyi and Szalontai) crossed with the European wild boar and a Serbian breed (and later others like Alföldi [5]) in Austria-Hungary (1833). [1]