Eurasian Wild Pig

The wild boar is a bulky, heavily built pig with short, fairly thin legs, a short thick neck and a very large head shaped for digging; strong neck muscles let it turn over soil and even rocks. Males are typically 5–10% larger and 20–30% heavier than females, carry a mane down the back and have canines that grow throughout life. The coat is coarse bristles over short downy fur and colour varies. Piglets are light or rusty brown with pale bands. Size depends strongly on habitat, and the weights given here are European figures (Wikipedia, general species account).

Sows live in groups with their young, and adult males are usually solitary outside the breeding season. Wild boar are versatile omnivores with a sharp sense of smell and acute hearing, but comparatively weak eyesight. In India they are prey for leopards and tigers, though studies of tigers there indicate boar are usually secondary to deer and bovids. One record from Bandipur National Park in southern India describes a boar killing and eating a bonnet macaque (Wikipedia, general species account).