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Average boar and sow weights are about 130 pounds and 110 pounds, respectively, although the largest adults may weigh more than 400 pounds and be more than 3 feet tall and 5 feet long. Males have larger heads and tusks than females. Compared to domestic swine, feral hogs have more well-developed shoulders, longer and larger snouts and tusks, smaller and mostly pricked ears, longer and coarser hair, and straighter tails (with a bushy tip).
Hogs have rounded body contours, short legs, and cloven-hoofs
with four toes, two of which have been modified into large dewclaws. Males develop thick areas of tough skin, cartilage and scar tissue on their shoulders. This area, called the shield, develops continually as the hog ages and fights and may be up to 2 inches thick.
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