The Barbary wild boar (Sus scrofa algira) is a smaller subspecies of wild boar native to North Africa including Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.[1][2][3] It is a prey animal for past and present predators of the Atlas Mountains, such as striped hyenas, Atlas bears, African leopards and Barbary lions.
The Barbary wild boar (Sus scrofa algira) is a smaller subspecies of wild boar native to NorthAfrica including Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. It is a prey...
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and...
Boar hunting is the practice of hunting wild boar, feral pigs, warthogs, and peccaries. Boar hunting was historically a dangerous exercise due to the tusked...
was also called NorthAfrican lion, Atlas lion and Egyptian lion. It lived in the mountains and deserts of the Maghreb of NorthAfrica from Morocco to...
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the Asfarviridae family. It is the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF)...
peccaries. Suines are largely native to Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia, with the exception of the wild boar, which is additionally native to Europe...
extinct in NorthAfrica, southern Europe, and West Asia. Asia's sole lion population lives in and around Gir National Park, India. The West African lion population...
escaped. Accordingly, Eurasian wild boar, released or escaped into habitats where they are not native, such as in North America, are not generally considered...
boars seek out estrous sows and compete for them. Boars will wait for sows to emerge from their burrows. A dominant boar will displace any other boar...
conservation in East African wetlands. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of East Anglia, Norwich. Maclean, I.M.D., M. Hassall, M. R. Boar and I. Lake. 2006...
precipitation, particularly in the form of snow. Mammals are represented by NorthAfricanboars (Sus scrofa algira), porcupines (Hystrix cristata), otters (Lutra...
Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free...
The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large sub-Saharan African bovine. There are five subspecies that are recognized as being valid. Syncerus caffer...
The African wolf (see below for other names; Canis lupaster) is a canine native to NorthAfrica, West Africa, the Sahel, northern East Africa, and the...
National Geographic. Retrieved 18 May 2010. "African Elephant". Oakland Zoo. Retrieved 17 September 2023. Most African elephants are diurnal though some herds...
hogs have a dental formula of 3.1.3–4.33.1.3–4.3, similar to that of wild boar. Both sexes have scent glands close to the eyes and on the feet; males have...
genus Sus. It is considered a subspecies of Sus scrofa (the wild boar or Eurasian boar) by some authorities, but as a distinct species by others. Pigs...
countries. The native forest fauna is abundant and includes bears, wild boars, wolves, foxes, squirrels, chamois and deer. The lynx is found, very rarely...
most parts of Croatia, especially north (Hrvatsko Zagorje) and Lika. In Gorski Kotar and Lika, venison or wild boar frequently replace beef (lovački gulaš)...
wooded habitats in Africa and is one of the largest wild members of the pig family, Suidae, along with a few subspecies of the wild boar. It was first described...
Black South Africans also known as 'South African Bantu-speaking peoples represent the majority of people in South Africa and who have lived in what is...
wild boar, among many others. However, he was best known for his enormous snails, of which he had several species brought from Illyria to Africa. With...
(rabbits and hares), Suidae (wild boar) and certain species of the genus Capra (goats and ibex). In Southern Africa, the word venison refers to the meat...
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