Sometimes wild boars will breed with pot-bellied pigs. The babies will grow up to have black fur and straight tails, but they may have fat bellies and a white stripe on their foreheads. Boars like to live in forests near streams or ponds. Since boars don't have any sweat glands, they must wallow in the mud to cool off. They are fast runners and good swimmers.
Boars like to live in oak forests so they can eat acorns in the fall.
Hickory nuts and pecans are also favorite foods. During the rest of the year, boars eat roots, grass, fruits, mushrooms, bugs, small birds, rabbits, eggs, and even dead animals. If there is plenty of food, the boars will stay in a 10 square mile territory. But if the deer and turkey eat the acorns, or if there just weren't many acorns that year, the boars may travel 50 miles to find food. They really dig up the ground while looking for roots.