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A feral pig is a domestic pig that has escaped or been released into the wild, and is living more or less as a wild animal, or one that is descended from such animals. [2] Zoologists generally exclude from the feral category animals that, although captive, were genuinely wild before they escaped. [ 3 ]
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Pigs will even eat small animals and destroy nests of ground nesting birds. [11] The Invasive Species Specialist Group lists feral pigs on the list of the world's 100 worst invasive species and says: [47] Feral pigs like other introduced mammals are major drivers of extinction and ecosystem change.
Feral boar may refer to: . A male feral pig of the domesticated subspecies Sus scrofa domesticus. (Females are feral sows.); A misnomer ("feral") for a wild boar (a.k.a. "wild pig", Sus scrofa) of either gender (although females are more properly wild sows
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A feral (/ ˈ f ɛr əl /; from Latin fera 'a wild beast') animal or plant is one that lives in the wild but is descended from domesticated individuals. As with an introduced species , the introduction of feral animals or plants to non-native regions may disrupt ecosystems and has, in some cases, contributed to extinction of indigenous species .
Feral hogs are the descendants of once domestic animals that either escaped hundreds of years ago from farms or were put on the landscape more recently by unsavory sportsmen to hunt.
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