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Food
almost everything I come across
Lifetime
10 years on average
Weight
200 kilograms
Number of youngsters
1 to 12 youngsters
Wear time
approximately 4 months
IUCN Status
safe
EEP?
no
Rooting around in the ground
Wild boars mainly eat seeds, fruit, nuts, roots and leaves. They usually go in search of food at night. In doing so, they sometimes walk as far as fifteen kilometres in a single night. To find food, they mainly use their snouts. This allows them to smell well, but also to root around in the ground. By turning over the soil, wild boars also ensure that new plants can grow in the forest.
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Theme area: On your own strength
You can see the wild boar in the ‘On your own strength’ theme area. Here, you’ll discover how animals move around and why moving, or, conversely, staying still, is important for survival.
Wellness
Wild boars regularly take mud baths. They do this to care for their coat and skin. They create their own mud pools by digging a hole in a damp spot in the forest. After a mud bath, a thin layer of mud remains on their skin. They then rub themselves against trees to remove the mud, along with ticks and other parasites, from their bodies.