The wild boar (Sus scrofa), 0.80 high at the shoulder, 1.50 meters long, can reach the weight of 180 kg. The legs are short and thin, the head is elongated with small eyes and large ears; vision is not very acute, but the sense of smell and hearing are highly developed. Males use canines, protruding on both jaws, for defense and offense.

The skin is covered with scattered bristles and only in winter with short hair and long and dense bristles. On the nape there is a mane and the tail is narrow and pendulous.

Distribution

The boar lives in the woods of central and southern Europe, in vast areas of Asia and north-western Africa.

In Italy it is absent in the north and in Sicily, while it is widespread in the woods of the center and south of the peninsula. It is very present in Tuscany, where the Maremma wild boar (Sus scrofa major) is widespread.

In Campania it is present in the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park.

Habitat

Thanks to its body structure and the thick skin that protects it, the wild boar can penetrate the denser spots where other animals could not pass.

Strongly hunted for always for its tasty meat, wild boar came to the beginning of the 1900s on the verge of extinction, but over the last century, also for sporting purposes, it was reintroduced in many regions, with imports of breeds larger and more prolific, and protected by severe hunting rules. Currently there are real reserves where the number of foldable garments is established annually.

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It is a sociable animal that lives in flocks made up of females and children, adult males instead are solitary, sheltering in the woods during the day, while at dusk they go in search of food.

Of an omnivorous diet, he digs with the snout in the ground in search of spasmodic roots, tubers, acorns, insects and their larvae and earthworms, an activity harmful to agriculture but, on the contrary, very useful in wooded areas where it favors the distribution of seeds and rotation of the forest heritage. The wild boar diet is supplemented by bird eggs and small mammals.

The flock usually, after eating, go to a pond or a puddle where all the components roll around in the mud for a long time to get rid of the parasites.

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The young grow quickly and after just 15 days they begin to feed looking for food in the soil; their skin is covered by a tawny fur with yellowish longitudinal lines, suitable for camouflage between the bush, which at six months changes into a reddish livery. At one year the last moult gives rise to brown leather. On average, a boar lives up to twenty years.

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