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. The wolf is the wild boar's main predator in most of its natural range except in the Far East and the Lesser Sunda Islands, where it is replaced by the tiger and Komodo dragon respectively.
Fully grown males are usually solitary outside the breeding season. The species lives in matriarchal societies consisting of interrelated females and their young (both male and female). Īs of 2005, up to 16 subspecies are recognized, which are divided into four regional groupings based on skull height and lacrimal bone length. Wild boars probably originated in Southeast Asia during the Early Pleistocene and outcompeted other suid species as they spread throughout the Old World. It has become an invasive species in part of its introduced range. It has been assessed as least concern on the IUCN Red List due to its wide range, high numbers, and adaptability to a diversity of habitats. The species is now one of the widest-ranging mammals in the world, as well as the most widespread suiform.
The wild boar ( Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania.
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