Male wild boars grow tusks from both their upper and lower jaws. The upper tusks are hollow and are used as a tool to keep the lower tusks very sharp. Although females lack these upper sharpening ...

Wild boar, which grow to the size of a labrador and have five-inch tusks, were a popular quarry for hunting parties centuries ago. The last one is said to have been hunted down in 1617 by James I ...

The tusks of male wild boars that it uses are polished and disinfected and usually reach the length of an adult index finger. Performers need to manipulate four to 10 tusks in their mouths ...

During one encounter, Hirano lost a hound. A wild boar ripped open the unfortunate canine's stomach with its tusks. “The dog howled, 'Yeow!' and did not last more than three minutes,” he said.

The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar (Bloomsbury Wildlife) has won The British Ecological Society’s (BES) £1,000 Marsh Ecology ...

"At that point in time there were a lot of wild boars and they were causing a great ... "It's odd to go for the tongue over the tusks or something. "I think it would be lovely if Bradford was ...

ON THE downside, America's 6m or so feral pigs are dangerous pests armed with sharp tusks, short tempers and ... more recently, European wild boars introduced for sport, spread diseases such ...

The British Ecological Society's Marsh Ecology Book of the Year is awarded to the book that has had the greatest influence on ...