Pig

Wild Boar ( Sus scrofa)

Sus is a mammalian genus from the family of the Real pigs ( Suidae ). The exact Artanzahl is still controversial, now 10 types are distinguished, of which the wild boar ( or its domesticated form, the domestic pig ) in Central Europe is the best known.

Features

Apart from the much smaller dwarf wild pig, the animals of this genus reach head torso lengths from 90 to 180 centimeters and a weight of 40 to 350 kilograms. They are dressed in a gray-brown or black, bristly fur and characterized by their trunk-like snout.

Dissemination

The original distribution area included Eurasia and North Africa, where there is a large, not yet fully explored, species richness, particularly in Southeast Asia. Domestic pigs are now spread worldwide.

System

Morphologically, the genus can be divided into three groups. Firstly, this is the group without facial warts and beard, to which the wild boar and the much smaller dwarf boar belong to the second in the Bartsch wines, a group that bears a striking hair on trunk. The third group are the warty pigs, which are characterized by facial warts,

The following species are ( according to Wilson & Reeder, 2005) distinguished:

• " Warts and beardless group " Wild Boar ( Sus scrofa)
• Dwarf boar (Sus salvanius )

• Bearded pig (Sus barbatus)
• Palawan bearded pig (Sus ahoenobarbus )

• Annamitisches Warty Pig (Sus bucculentus )
• Visayan Warty Pig (Sus cebifrons )
• Sulawesi Warty Pig (Sus celebensis )
• Mindoro Warty Pig (Sus oliveri )
• Philippine Warty Pig (Sus philippensis )
• Javanese warty (Sus verrucosus )