As someone who's not from Europe and considers wild boar a nuisance, I say that the boar is very much needed.
North America, South America, Asia, and Africa all have their iconic swine, so let's give Europe another chance to shine
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North America, South America, Asia, and Africa all have their iconic swine, so let's give Europe another chance to shine
Very pleased with the Peccary, but I feel we Europeans still need our Wild Boar.
There isn't a lot of European wildlife, relative to the rest of the world! Wild boar are iconic for us and one of our largest, fiercest and most impressive species still in existence. They're a big part of our history as well with boar hunting being the main past-time of kings in all our countries for centuries (poor boar! No wonder we have so few animals left
)They are very different from the other suids we have in game and Europe feels incomplete to me without them more than perhaps any other European animal.
There's my boar-manifesto
Aren't musk ox bovids?
Edit: omg, nope! You learn something every day! I am very confused abt what makes a bovid vs a caprid now
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Ironically, they are a nuisance everywhere elseThey're a big part of our history as well with boar hunting being the main past-time of kings in all our countries for centuries (poor boar! No wonder we have so few animals left
Aw. Surely no animal is a nuisance if you learn how to live more harmoniously with it.
Our voracious appetite for single-species agriculture and thirsty lawns are not helping the planet. I see all wildlife that interrupts that as active resistors; brave eco warriors!
As such I don't believe in the word "pest". That's just a value judgement placed on species that don't fit the status quo. I call them "rebels" or "punk ass cuties"
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Genetic relationship is the word. Not everything which Looks Close to each other must be closely related and the same Sometimes counts also for the other direction. Take the Old world and the new World Porcupines. New World Porcupines are closer related to Capybaras, Maras or Agoutis than to the Old World Porcupine. Or the Most extreme Case. The Hyrax Looks like a rodent but they are Not. Instead their closest relatives are elephants and Manatees.Aren't musk ox bovids?
Edit: omg, nope! You learn something every day! I am very confused abt what makes a bovid vs a caprid now
You're right. But wild boar are annoying. We have property but they tear up the ground and you trip and twist your ankles
Eh well, watch your step and enjoy the stripy babiesYou're right. But wild boar are annoying. We have property but they tear up the ground and you trip and twist your ankles
Despite being one who was pleasantly surprised about the Collared Peccary. I am not entirely satisfied with the Peccery having entered the gates. There is still a bit of a hole that needs to be filled in the family of suids as one of the only members of the genus Sus and the grandfather of all domestic pigs. The wild boar represents all things pigs, and that's why it's needed in the game. It's not a request, just a word that needs to be said.
I agree. See my earlier comments about how I consider them important
I'm guilty of this, but I'm speaking for everyone when I say that we're specifically talking about cattle vs goats/sheep
I do. From a distance. Can't ever cross a mama pig and her pigletsEh well, watch your step and enjoy the stripy babies
I can see why, but then again, Europe does keed a few more key species
What the ABB is for North American players, the wild boar is the same for European players
Any reasons for that? And do you have examples of such better options?
Wild boars are quite essential European animals. It's the same as Africa without the warthog, it's missing 
at least in my opinion
at least in my opinion
They are just as essential for the majority of Asia plus the Atlas Mountains and Lower Nile too.Wild boars are quite essential European animals. It's the same as Africa without the warthog, it's missing
In terms of European ungulates, I’d love to see the European bison. It’s also one of the few large European mammals that pretty much restricted to Europe (although it did venture slightly into some neighbouring parts of western and Central Asia)
I mean technically caprid is a type of bovid.... Cow family=Bovidae~Bovid.Aren't musk ox bovids?
Edit: omg, nope! You learn something every day! I am very confused abt what makes a bovid vs a caprid now
HOWEVER, caprid means close to sheep and goats. Afaik it is a subfamily of the cow family. And you could call the cow family the antelope family imo. Because all the true cattle are a subfamily as well.
Disclaimer: my taxonomy comes from the most easily accessible source...
I see the European Bison kinda the same as the Blue wildebeest. Perhaps not really essential or needed, but a fun addition non the less
I would happily have it in my Woodlands zoo.