konstantinos

I want to ask some questions about the species of pigs and peccaries

Accorind to wiki, these are the 18 extant species of Suidae (2 species of sus scrofa):

1. Sus ahoenobarbus – Palawan bearded pig
2. Sus barbatus – Bornean bearded pig
3. Sus cebifrons – Visayan warty pig
4. Sus celebensis – Sulawesi warty pig
5. Sus oliveri – Mindoro warty pig
6. Sus philippensis – Philippine warty pig
7. Sus scrofa – wild boar
8. Sus scrofa domestica – domestic pig (sometimes treated as a full species)
9. Sus verrucosus – Javan warty pig
10. Porcula salvania – pygmy hog
11. Hylochoerus meinertzhageni – giant forest hog
12. Potamochoerus larvatus – bushpig
13. Potamochoerus porcus – red river hog
14. Phacochoerus africanus – common warthog
15. Phacochoerus aethiopicus – desert warthog
16.Babyrousa babyrussa – Moluccan babirusa
17. Babyrousa celebensis – North Sulawesi babirusa
18. Babyrousa togeanensis – Togian babirusa

And there are 4 possible species of peccaries:

1. collared
2. white-lipped
3. Chacoan
4. giant

So some questions. Are all of them edible by humans? If so, has someone tested some of them? What are their tastes? And how easy it is to find some of them for cooking - eating?

About me, only Sus scrofa - Sus scrofa domestica.

MudderChuck

Been my experience the taste varies. Most of what impacts the taste is what they have been eating. Peccaries are tough, smelly and stringy, at least the Southwest semi-arid types are, that I've tried. They smell like a combination of Mesquite, Juniper and dog farts.
I've had a variety of domestic and wild Hog meat. The Wild Hogs on my lease eat better than most humans for much of the year. I avoid them during Acorn season, they get a gamey taste. Any other time of the year they are good eating IMO. The sows are generally better eating than the Boars. I harvested a Sow a couple of years ago where the sounder had been pigging out on Wheat and Strawberries. Tasted unusual but good IMO
There are at least a dozen subspecies of Wild Boar, hybrids and many more domestic varieties. Last year I got ahold of a Kunekune, a variety of grazing hog, I really couldn't tell the difference between its meat and grass-fed Cow. Kunekune graze like Sheep.

Double Naught Spy

Just a point of phylogeny, there is only one species of Sus scrofa. By taxonomic delineation, that is the name of the species. S.s. domestica is a subspecies of Sus scrofa. With Sus scrofa, there are a whole bunch of subspecies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_boar

hunters_life

great recipe for peccaries, take meat from animal, place on hickory board, slow roast at low heat for 4-6 hours, remove from grill, throw away meat and eat the board. Long way of saying it's pretty nasty.

sarahunt

thank you very much

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I have eaten feral wild hog, European Wild Boar, Javelina, Warthog, Giant Forest Hog, Bushpig and Red River Hog. All of them are edible with bushpig being the worst of the ones I have consumed. Cannot answer for any of the others.