Artiodactyla, Owen, 1848

Corlett, Richard T., 2011, Vertebrate Carnivores And Predation In The Oriental (Indomalayan) Region, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 59 (2), pp. 325-360 : 345

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10107775

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scientific name

Artiodactyla
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An Oriental species, the wild boar ( Sus scrofa , Suidae ), is known to regularly consume a wide range of vertebrate prey, both within its native range in Europe and as a feral animal in the USA and Australia (Schley & Roper, 2003; Wilcox & Van Vuren, 2009). Reported prey includes mammals up to the size of rabbits, lambs and deer fawns, bird eggs and nestlings, amphibians and reptiles. At least part of this involves active predation, although they also scavenge on carcasses. One Sus barbatus scavenged an orangutan carcass in Borneo (Galdikas, 1978).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

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