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Reproduction:
sows can give birth to 10 young. Sometimes wild boar mate with domestic pigs should they get loose. The result is a crossbreed, or hybrid.
Food:
Wild boars are omnivorous. They eat roots, tubers, bulbs, mushrooms, fruit, earthworms, insects, carrion and - unfortunately for farmers - wheat, corn and potatoes. When hunting for underground tubers, boars plough up the ground with their snout and hooves. They thus cause considerable damage in pastures and fields.
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Habitat:
wild boars tend to emerge at night, though that is probably because they are hunted. They spend their days in the densest thickets and steepest parts of the forest. Near water or in marshland, they enjoy wallowing in mud.
In the Pyrenees:
found throughout the range. Although a favourite prey of hunters, the crafty, secretive boar is far from extinction.
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Large fauna
