INDIAN WILD BOAR
- Scientific Name : Sus scrofa cristatus
- IUCN Status: Least concern
- The wild boar, also known as the wild swine, common wild pig Eurasian wild pig or simply wild pig
- The wild boar is a bulky massively built suid with short and relatively thin legs.
- The trunk is short and robust, while the hind quarters are comparatively under developed.
- Sexual dimorphism is very pronounced in the species with males being typically 5-10 % larger and 20-30 % heavier the females.
- The canine teeth are also much more prominent in males and grow throughout life.
- Boars are typically social animal living in female-dominated sounders consisting of barren sows and mothers with young led by and old matriarch.
- Male boars leave their sounder at the age of 8-15 months, while females either remain with their mothers or establish new territories nearby.
- Sub adult males may live in loosely knit groups, while adult and elderly.
- It is a subspecies of wild boar native to India, Nepal, Myanmar, western Thailand and Sri Lanka