[Sca-cooks] Boar vs. Pig

[Bill Fisher]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:54:58 -0600, Terry Decker
<t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Just to add a little to Phlip's answer, wild pig is sometimes used to refer
> to the peccary (AKA javelina).  What they are hunting down south are
> probably feral pigs, but it could also be peccaries, which have had a very
> wide range in North and South America.
> 
> Bear

Looks like it is literally a feral domestic pig - sus scrofa

http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/gawildlife/mammals/artiodactyla/suidae/sscrofa.html

They say it is not the collared peccary.

Cadoc
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