#0015 · 🦊 mammals
Wild Boar
🇳🇱 Everzwijn ·Sus scrofa
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what is it?
The wild boar ( Sus scrofa ), also known as the wild swine or Eurasian wild pig , is a suid native to much of Eurasia, North Africa, and the Greater Sunda Islands. Human intervention has spread its distribution further, making the species one of the widest-ranging mammals in the world, as well as the most widely spread suiform. Its wide range, high numbers, and adaptability mean that it is classed as least concern by the IUCN and it...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 264 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #15 most seen of the mammals in NL.
- 73,796 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Wild Boar
- Nederlands
- Everzwijn
- scientific name
- Sus scrofa
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Artiodactyla
- family
- Suidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 264
- sightings in Europe
- 22,783
- sightings worldwide
- 73,796
- GBIF records in NL
- 34,170
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Suidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 42134, Wikidata Q58697, GBIF 7705930, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.