Stats

Lifespan

15-20 yrs

Size

Large

Diet

Omnivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Herd

Biome

Grassland

Range

Worldwide (domesticated)

Movement

Walking

Breeding

Live Birth

Defense

Herd Safety

Status

Rare

About

A stout, intelligent omnivore domesticated from the Eurasian wild boar over 9,000 years ago and now one of the most numerous large mammals on Earth. Pigs have a sense of smell roughly 2,000 times more sensitive than humans and can be trained to sniff out truffles buried deep in forest soil.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   newborn piglet

   A newborn piglet nurses in a row beside its littermates, often born with light stripes.
2. 2.
   juvenile

   A weaned juvenile roots in the dirt for food, loses its stripes, and shadows the adults.
3. 3.
   adult

   Fully grown and rooting independently.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Suidae

Genus

Sus

Species

Sus domesticus