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Sus scrofa domesticus

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The pig (Sus scrofa domesticus L.), commonly called pork or pork, is a suida domesticated mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla suina pig. The male and female call will rarely sow or bitch, while the puppies are called piglets Verretto or if male and if female gilts pig. It is one of the slaughter animals are more widespread and used by man, also because of the wide range of derivative products, ranging from articolatissime specific processing of its meat, the exploitation of the bristles (according to an old adage, for that matter, "the pig does not throw anything. ") The domestic pig and the wild boar both belong to a single species, being interfecondi pig.

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PublishedSeptember 7, 2011

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