Wild boars

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.

Quotes

• Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it. ...
  Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
  The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
  • Psalm 80:13 (ASV)
  • This is the only Biblical allusion to the wild boar (חֲזִיר מִיָּ֑עַ‬ר ḥăzîr mîyā‘ar, 'forest pig'); see Animals in the Bible

• He slew
  That cruel boare, whose tusks turn'd up whole fields of grain,
  And rooting, raisèd hills upon the level plaine.
  • Michael Drayton, Polyolbion (1622)

• Wild boars are usually notoriously wary of humans, for good reason, having been hunted almost to extinction in some parts of the world and despised and feared just about everywhere else.
  • Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004), ch. 1, p. 47

• A cane non magno sæpe tenetur aper.
  • The wild boar is often held by a small dog.
  • Ovid, Remedia Amoris, 422, as reported in Hoyt's Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations, 12th ed. (1894), p. 555

• His snout digs sepulchres where'er he goes;
  Being mov'd, he strikes whate'er is in his way,
  And whom he strikes his cruel tushes slay.
  • Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593)

• But this foul, grim, urchin-snouted boar...
  • Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593)

• To fly the boar before the boar pursues
  Were to incense the boar to follow us,
  And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.
  • Shakespeare, Richard III (1597), 3, 2

• General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood ... but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.
  • Gilbert White, Natural History of Selborne (1789)

See also

• Pigs