Pig
Sus scrofa domesticus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Sus scrofa domesticus
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Suidae
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Size
- Medium (1–2 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
- Habitat
- Grassland, Towns and farms
- Conservation status
- Not evaluated (domestic)
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Pigs have very few working sweat glands, so they cool down by wallowing in mud.
- Researchers have taught pigs to move a cursor on a screen with a joystick to earn a treat.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q787 · All animals · All entries