Indian Wild Pig
Also known as Bhund, suar
Lowest risk
Native
The wild boar, also known as the "wild swine", "common 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. The species is now one of the widest-ranging mammals in the world, as well as the most widespread suiform. 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. It has become an invasive species in part of its introduced range. Wild boars probably originated in Southeast Asia during the Early Pleistocene and outcompeted other suid species as they spread throughout the Old World.
- Range mass
- 66 to 272 kg
- Range length
- 153 to 240 cm
- Average basal metabolic rate
- 104.1500 W cm3.O2/g/hr
- Average basal metabolic rate
- 104.15 W
- Breeding interval
- Wild boars may breed once or twice in a year.
- Breeding season
- Wild boars breed throughout the year.
- Average number of offspring
- 5-6
- Average number of offspring
- 7
- Range gestation period
- 108 to 120 days
- Average gestation period
- 115.2 +/- 2.3 days
- Range weaning age
- 8 to 12 weeks
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- 10 months
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
Sex: female - 334 days
- Range age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- 5 to 7 months
- Range lifespan
Status: wild - 12-13 (high) years
- Range lifespan
Status: captivity - 27 (high) years
- Typical lifespan
Status: wild - 2 to 9-10 years
- Range territory size
- 1.1 to 3.9 km^2
Wickline, K. 2014. "Sus scrofa" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Sus_scrofa/
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