Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Distribution

With around 2 billion individuals alive at any time, the domesticated pig is one of the most numerous large mammals on the planet.  
The ancestor of the domesticated pig cookie jar is the wild boar, which is one of the most numerous and widespread large mammals. Its many subspecies are native to all but the harshest climes of continental Eurasia and its islands, from Ireland and India to Japan and north to Siberia. Although it has been exterminated in some areas, its numbers are stable or even increasing rapidly, in most of its native range.

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