How big does a Wild boar get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Wild boar (Sus scrofa) reaches an average size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 21 years, they grow from 808 grams (1.78 lbs) to 84.49 kg (186.26 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Wild boars have 4 babies about 1 times per year. The Wild boar (genus: Sus) is a member of the family Suidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the “wild swine”, “common wild pig”, or simply “wild pig”, is a suid native to much of the Palearctic, as well as being introduced in the Nearctic, Neotropic, Oceania, the Caribbean islands, and Southeast Asia. Human intervention has spread it further, making the species one of the widest-ranging mammals in the world, as well as the most widespread suiform. Its wide range, high numbers, and adaptability mean that it is classed as least concern by the IUCN, and it has become an invasive species in part of its introduced range. The animal probably originated in Southeast Asia during the Early Pleistocene and outcompeted other suid species as it spread throughout the Old World.As of 1990, up to 16 subspecies are recognized, which are divided into four regional groupings based on skull height and lacrimal bone length. The species lives in matriarchal societies consisting of interrelated females and their young (both male and female). Fully grown males are usually solitary outside the breeding season. The grey wolf, coyote, black bear, brown bear, lynx, bobcat, cougar, and jaguar, is the wild boar’s main predators in most of its natural range except in the Far East and the Lesser Sunda Islands, where it is replaced by the leopard, tiger, lion, dhole, alligator, crocodile, and Komodo dragon respectively. The wild boar has a long history of association with humans, having been the ancestor of most domestic pig breeds and a big-game animal for millennia. Boars have also re-hybridized in recent decades with feral pigs; these boar–pig hybrids have become a serious pest wild animal in Australia, New Zealand, several Pacific Islands, Eastern Siberia, and the Congo.
Animals of the same family as a Wild boar
We found other animals of the Suidae family:
- Red river hog with a size of 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Celebes warty pig with 3 babies per litter
- Desert warthog with 3 babies per litter
- Buru babirusa with a size of 95 cm (3′ 2″)
- Pygmy hog with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Giant forest hog with a size of 2.03 meter (6′ 8″)
- Philippine warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Bushpig with 2 babies per litter
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Visayan warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
Animals with the same size as a Wild boar
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Wild boar:
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Sika deer with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Asian black bear with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Puku with a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Giant anteater with a size of 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- American black bear with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Javan warty pig with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Western gorilla with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Wild boar
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Wild boar:
- Western harvest mouse
- Delicate slender opossum
- Ornate shrew
- Atherton antechinus
- Large bamboo rat
- Krebs’s fat mouse
- Indian desert jird
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew
- Akodon azarae
- Merriam’s pocket mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Wild boar
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Wild boar:
- Nilgiri tahr with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Aardwolf with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Monk saki with an average maximal age of 24.58 years
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Brown greater galago with an average maximal age of 18.75 years
- Kob with an average maximal age of 21.92 years
- Pygmy sperm whale with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Fringed myotis with an average maximal age of 18.25 years
- Emperor tamarin with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Wild boar
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sus scrofa:
- Saola with a weight of 97.84 kilos (215.7 lbs)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a weight of 101.03 kilos (222.73 lbs)
- Guanaco with a weight of 95.5 kilos (210.54 lbs)
- Antarctic fur seal with a weight of 96.6 kilos (212.97 lbs)
- Persian fallow deer with a weight of 74.4 kilos (164.02 lbs)
- Harbor seal with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 93.49 kilos (206.11 lbs)
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 94.7 kilos (208.78 lbs)
- Short-beaked common dolphin with a weight of 79.29 kilos (174.8 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)