Wild Boar

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Here are two recorded Persian Wild Boar weights.

There was a 260 kg specimen in Iran.


Wild Boar weights in Minoo Island, Khuzestan

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The male average was 109 kg, The female average was 69 kg. The biggest was 260 kg.



Wild Boar weights in Golestan National Park

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The male average was 107 kg. The female average was 86 kg. The largest was 165 kg.


source: ASHRAFZADEH, MOHAMMAD REZA, and MARYAM BORDKHANI. "New morphometric data of wild boar (Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758) from the Minoo Island (Iran)." ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY1 (2012): 139.




Another Wild Boar weight.

"it would suggest that S. s. attila occurs in north-western and possibly northern-eastern Iran."


source: Sharbafi, Elmira, et al. "Prey of the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) in a mixed forest-steppe landscape in northeastern Iran (Mammalia: Felidae)." Zoology in the Middle East 62.1 (2016): 1-8.



Here are separate averages for sub-adults of S.s. attila, though these are in Romania. 

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source:  Postolache, Alina Narcisa, Marius Mihai Ciobanu, and Paul Corneliu Boișteanu. "Selected biometric characteristics of wild boar (Sus scrofa Ferus) in North-East Romania." Food Science and Technology 72.1 (2015): 137-138. Reply