The Best Wine Styles With Wild Boar

Wild boar (Sus scrofa) are very widespread worldwide, whilst there are several million roaming the forests of mainland Europe they are slowly making a comeback in Great Britain, having been hunted to extinction in the Middle Ages. Hunters classify wild boar in the group of cloven-hoofed game. Wild boars are nocturnal omnivores, the male animal is called a boar and the female a doe, the offspring are called piglets, sometimes charmingly referred to as 'Humbugs' due to their distinctive stripped markings which act as camouflage. The doe and their offspring live in groups of up to 20 called sounders; male boar are solitary animals only joining a sounder at mating and staying for a year or so. At the age of one to two years, the young animals are called overrunners. The male boars' 6 inch long self-sharpening tusks make them an intimidating spectacle, but despite weighing in at around 200 kilograms when fully grown, they are generally shy and will stay away from humans, so conflict is rare.