boar
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When the thing dies, the worms fall away to reveal that it wasn’t always a demon, but a boar god felled by a dark force.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
When he comes upon Irontown, led by the highborn Lady Eboshi, and listens to its people brag about burning down the boar god’s forest, one might expect him to be angry.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Mangalitsa-cross pigs are related to the hairy Hungarian breed, developed in the 1830s, that mixed eastern European domestic breeds with the wild boar.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
As the day went on, we saw wild boar, red deer and a single nervous fox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
“Riley was a nice pig, for a boar, sir. I rode him sometimes, and he didn’t mind.”
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
The presence of woodland ecosystems in southern Doggerland 16,000 years ago also suggests the area could have supported abundant wildlife and provided valuable resources for humans, including animals such as boars.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2026
ASF is highly contagious and lethal for pigs and wild boars, but it does not affect humans.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
Spain's pork industry is "very concerned" by a growing African swine fever outbreak among wild boars that has sparked jitters about the world's third-largest producer of the meat and its derivatives.
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
Scientists say that bear numbers have grown in Japan in recent years thanks to an abundance of food such as acorns, deer and boars due to a warming climate.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
To the west lay the ancient Grunewald forest, where sixteenth-century German princes hunted stags and wild boars and where Berliners of all classes nowadays enjoyed hiking, picnicking, and foraging for mushrooms.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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