Both share the characteristic snouts, hooves and shape. Wild Boars make their homes in thickets and tall grass. They have grayish black wooly hair with a bristly mane along the spine. Their lower teeth grow into tusks that can be 12 inches long. Boars use their tusks for digging up food and to protect themselves from predators.
Boars eat roots, plant bulbs, grains and small animals.
Boars travel and live in groups of 50 in the wild. Females are called sows. They can have 2 - 12 babies in a litter. Piglets are not fully grown until the age of 4 or 5 years.