Wild Boar killed in Nairn in 1976
From Wildlife in Britain and Ireland by Richard Perry, Book Club Ascociates 1978
The wild stock finally became extinct both in England and Scotland during the seventeenth century, partially as a result of hunting and party by absorption into domestic herds, though imported boars could be shot in the New Forest at the end of the nineteenth century, while the killing of one on a forestry road near Nairn in the Scottish Highlands in 1976 has yet to be explained.
During the eighteenth century some domestic piglets were still being born with the horizontal stripes of their wild ancestors, while a century later both in the Highlands and on the Welsh hills gaunt long-legged, semi-domesticated swine with very long snouts, a ruff of coarse bristles round the neck, and a pronounced ridge of coares bristles along the spine, were running wild on the moors and invading the corn and potatoe fields.
© Wildlife of Britain and Ireland, 1978
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