Survival of Wild Boars in a Variable Environment: Unexpected Life-history Variation in an Unusual Ungulate

The wild boar (Sus scrofa) is a large, sexually dimorphic ungulate that exhibits a life-history tactic different from what would be predicted for a mammal of its size. In particular, litter size is larger and adult survival usually lower in wild boars than in other species of comparable size. We used capture-mark-recapture methods to model survival in a Mediterranean population (S. s. majori) of wild boars during an 8-year period, using a large...