Wild boar

Its diet category is herbivore, and its main foods include root, tuber, bulb, nut, seed, berry, insect, lumbricus terrestris, rodent, bird egg and carrion. The wild boar is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, which is not a threatened category, and checklists record it in Australia.

Weight

81.7 kg – 172 kgsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

21 years – 27 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Herbivoresrc for Diet

Main food

anura, bark, berry, bird egg, bulb, carrion and 14 moresrc for Main food

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

112 days – 130 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

5.57src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

11 months – 2.1 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1.5src for Litters or clutches a year

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The wild boar is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

The wild boar is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderArtiodactyla
5. familySuidae
6. genusSus
7. SpeciesSus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms Sus andamanensis, Sus aruensis, Sus attila, Sus babi, Sus baeticus, Sus bucculentus, Sus castilianus, Sus celtica, Sus ceramensis, Sus chirodontus, Sus continentalis, Sus enganus, Sus europaeus, Sus floresianus, Sus gigas, Sus goramensis, Sus leucomystax continentalis, Sus leucomystax coreanus, Sus leucomystax var. continentalis, Sus natunensis, Sus nicobaricus, Sus niger, Sus papuensis, Sus sardous, Sus scrofa continentalis, Sus scrofa coreanus, Sus scrofa ussuricus, Sus setosus, Sus taininensis, Sus ternatensis, Sus tuancus

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@misc{wild_boar_2026,
  title = {Wild boar (Sus scrofa)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/wild-boar},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}