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Ultimately, the tale of the pig in the ancient Near East reveals how ... Beginning five million years ago, Sus scrofa (top), the wild boar, spread from Southeast Asia across Asia and into Europe.

and Eurasian wild boars (Sus scrofa). But Canada’s pig problem is uniquely terrifying. Hunters deliberately brought over wild boars to the area as livestock and controlled game during the 1980s ...