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  2. Wild boar - Wikipedia

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    The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, [4] common wild pig, [5] Eurasian wild pig, [6] or simply wild pig, [7] is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is now one of the widest-ranging mammals in the world, as well as the most widespread suiform. [5]

  3. List of captive-bred meat animals - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of animals that are or may have been raised in captivity for consumption by people. ... (pigs): Domestic pig; Wild boar; Non-mammals ...

  4. Feral pig - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  5. Have you recently seen wild hogs? Here’s the signs of wild ...

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    Pictures can be found on pages 10 and 11 of the “Managing Wild Pigs: A Technical Guide”. An uprooted field, as the hogs will tear up the ground to eat various roots and tubers. Beds of ...

  6. Hog wild: KY one of the top states with a costly feral pig ...

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    A biologist says you can shoot into a group of wild hogs, but “it educates the rest.” ...

  7. Pig - Wikipedia

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    Pigs are good non-human candidates for organ donation to humans, and in 2021 became the first animal to successfully donate an organ to a human body. [ 107 ] [ 108 ] The procedure used a donor pig genetically engineered not to have a specific carbohydrate that the human body considers a threat– Galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose . [ 109 ]

  8. A population of hard-to-eradicate ‘super pigs’ in Canada is ...

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    Wild pigs already cause around $2.5 billion in damage to U.S. crops every year, mostly in southern states like Texas. And they can be aggressive toward humans. And they can be aggressive toward ...

  9. Meat - Wikipedia

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    Livestock make up 60% of the biomass of all mammals on earth, followed by humans (36%) and wild mammals (4%). [ 142 ] [ 143 ] In November 2017, 15,364 world scientists signed a Warning to Humanity calling for a drastic reduction in per capita consumption of meat and "dietary shifts towards mostly plant-based foods". [ 144 ]