The Central Asian boar (''Sus scrofa davidi'') is a small long maned subspecies of
wild boar
The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is ...
indigenous to Southeastern
Iran
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,
Pakistan
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and Northwest
India
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Description
The subspecies is smaller than the nominate
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Political office
In the ...
''S. s. scrofa''. It is light brown in color and has a long and thick mane. Males have been reported to reach weights of up to 158 kg, and females 123 kg.Colin Groves
Colin Peter Groves (24 June 1942 – 30 November 2017) was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist. Groves was Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
Education
Born in Englan ...
named it after Reuben David
Reuben David (19 September 1912 – 24 March 1989) was a zoologist and the founder of the Kankaria Zoo in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Biography
He was born into a Bene Israel Jews in India, Jewish family in Ahmedabad. He was the youngest son of ...
, an Indian zoologist.
References
Mammals described in 1981
Mammals of India
Wild boars
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