wild boar
omnivore species of mammal
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Summary
wild boar is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.073% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32,520 views/month, #142 of 195,241).[2]
Key Facts
- Taxon rank: species[3]
- IUCN conservation status: Least Concern[4]
- Parent taxon: Sus[5]
- Taxon name: Sus scrofa[6]
- Subclass of: Sus[7]
- Commons category: Sus scrofa[8]
- Unicode character: 🐗[9]
- Temporal range start: Pleistocene[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Wild boars[11]
- Commons gallery: Sus scrofa[12]
- Main food source: rhizome[13], root[14], tuber[15], bulb[16], nut[17], berry[18], seed[19], leaf[20], bark[21], twig[22], shoot[23], waste[24], Lumbricus terrestris[25], insect[26]
- Depicted by: Cooking of a boar[27]
- Described by source: Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[28], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[29], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[30], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[31], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[32], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[33], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[34], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[35], Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[36], The New Student's Reference Work[37], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[38], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[39]
- Taxon synonym: Sus nicobaricus[40]
- Has characteristic: viviparity[41]
- This taxon is source of: wild boar meat[42]
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Identifiers
wild boar's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9823[43]. wild boar's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 328663[44]. wild boar's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7705930[45]. wild boar's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180722[46].
Discovery and Description
Things named for wild boar include Kaprosuchus[47], a fossil taxon[48].
Why It Matters
wild boar has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] It is known by 151 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]
Entities named for it include Kaprosuchus[47], a fossil taxon[48].