wild boar

Sensitive snout

A wild sow and its boarlets search for food under hazel trees in an oak wood. They root eagerly in the earth with their snouts, grunting contentedly. Smell is the most important sense for the wild boar.

Lone mothers

Boars and sows meet only briefly for mating, some time between August and December. Apart from that brief encounter, the boars usually spend most of the year on their own, leaving the sows to care for and protect the boarlets.