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Wild boar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Boar" redirects here. For other uses, see Boar (disambiguation) and Wild boar (disambiguation) . For pigs descended from escaped, domesticated animals, see Feral pig . Wild boar Temporal range: Early Pleistocene – Holocene Male Central European boar ( S. s. scrofa ) Conservation status Least Concern ( IUCN 3.1 ) [1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Suidae Genus: Sus Species: S. scrofa Binomial name Sus scrofa Linnaeus , 1758 Reconstructed range of wild boar (green) and introduced populations (blue): Not shown are smaller introduced populations in the Caribbean , New Zealand , sub-Saharan Africa , and elsewhere in Bermuda , North, Northeast, and Northwest Canada and Alaska . [1] Synonyms show Species synonymy [2] MENU 0:00 Boar growls The wild boar ( Sus scrofa ), also known as the wild swine , [3] common