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Unlike other species of pig native to tropical Africa, the entire body is covered in hair, with no bare skin visible. [3] Adults weigh 45 to 115 kg (99 to 254 lb) and stand 55 to 80 cm (22 to 31 in) tall, with a length of 100 to 145 cm (39 to 57 in). [2] The thin tail is 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18 in) long [2] and ends in a tuft of black hair. The ...
The adult length ranges from 100 to 140 cm (39 to 55 in), and heights of about 50 to 65 cm (20 to 26 in) are common. [11] The curled adult tail is about 24 to 30 cm (9.4 to 12 in). These pigs have characteristically long necks and legs, deep sides, and narrow backs. Their ham structures are quite muscular and firm.
The Hampshire is an American breed of domestic pig. It derives from saddlebacked pigs imported to Kentucky from about 1825 from the English county of Hampshire . It has a black body with a white band or sheet over the shoulders and extending down the front legs; the ears are erect.
The pig has a large head, with a long snout strengthened by a special prenasal bone and a disk of cartilage at the tip. [2] The snout is used to dig into the soil to find food and is an acute sense organ. The dental formula of adult pigs is 3.1.4.3 3.1.4.3, giving a total of 44 teeth. The rear teeth are adapted for crushing.
Adult bushpigs stand from 66 to 100 cm (26 to 39 in) at the shoulder, [4] and mature boars can reach a weight of 150 kg (330 lb), although 60 to 80 kg (130 to 180 lb) is more common. [4] [5] Sows are 45 to 70 kg (99 to 154 lb). [5] They resemble the domestic pig, and can be identified by their pointed, tufted ears and face mask.
Exports to the United States began in the early nineteenth century. The American Berkshire Association, established in 1875, was the first breed society for a pig breed; [5]: 551 the first pig registered was a boar named Ace of Spades, reportedly bred by Queen Victoria. [9]
The Sheep-Pig, or Babe, the Gallant Pig in the United States, is a 1983 children's novel by British author Dick King-Smith, first published by Gollancz with illustrations by Mary Rayner. Set in rural England , where King-Smith spent twenty years as a farmer, it features a lone pig on a sheep farm.
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.