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Pigs

Examples from literature

Ever since that date, for five hundred years, a boar's head has graced the college table at Christmas. 
Several large hogs and boars had been brought from thence which had weighed, when fattened, from one hundred and eighty to three hundred and six pounds. 
The first of these was an enormous brute, evidently the boar we wanted. 
This boar was afterwards shot by one of my people in an adjacent jungle—at least a boar was shot, which we infer must have been the one in question, as since then my garden has not been disturbed. 
To his extreme amazement, the identical boar which had caused all his trouble and fatigue, appeared closely followed by both the dogs. 

boar | American Dictionary

boar
noun[ C ]
us/bɔr, boʊr/
a male pig kept for breeding on a farm, or a type of wild pig

Examples of boar

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Subadult individuals were all black-coated wild boar whose carcass weighed <50 kg, supposedly corresponding to 13- to 24-month-old animals.
Fertile boars were always penned in the vicinity.
These findings indicate that freezing does not necessarily induce capacitation of boar spermatozoa.
Indeed, a high specificity (94%) has been recorded in young wild boar.
Trematodes were not recovered from any of wild boars examined.
The first involves a community-based scheme with boar rotation, while the second is a commercially run nucleus breeding scheme.
Isolation and characterization of membrane vesicles from human and boar spermatozoa: methods using nitrogen cavitation and ionophore induced vesiculation.
Young individuals were all reddish-brown coated or strayed wild boar and were assumed to be aged <12 months.
An increase in the proportion of wild boar alleles across the genome increased length versus width of femur and reduced the prevalence of osteochondrosis.
There were big populations of larger mammals such as elk, deer, bears, wolves and wild boar.
Cryogenic damage to boar spermatozoa frozen in pellets and in tubes.
To get larger full-sib families, most sows were mated to the same boar for both parities.
Five of 12 wild boars were not infected.
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