Boar

Boar
Biological type:	Mammal
Place of origin:	Earth
First appearance:	The Eye of the Scorpion
Appearances:	PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen AUDIO: The Green Man AUDIO: Castle of Fear

Extraterrestrial lookalikes

Boars were a type of pig (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen) often caught for food on Earth. When she first met the Fifth Doctor and Peri Brown in Egypt in 1400 BC, Erimem invited them to sample some freshly-caught roast boar. As Peri was a vegetarian, she baulked at the thought of eating the boar. The Doctor advised her to pretend to have eaten it by moving it around her plate. (AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion)

Nyssa was chased by a boar, specifically a Mummerset black, in Stockbridge in 1199. (AUDIO: Castle of Fear) A boar who had been killed by a Krynoid-possessed wolf was found by Henri d'Arrée and Moses of Tyre when they looked through an English forest for their lost horses in the 12th century. (AUDIO: The Green Man)

Boars had become extinct in England, but they were reintroduced in 1987. This occurred during a massive storm in Kent, when a farm that raised continental boars was damaged and the boars escaped. According to the Eighth Doctor, some of these boars came nextdoor to the Doctor's house, and he taught them to talk. They evolved into the intelligent Tusken race. Brewster was a sentient boar who managed a 21st century hotel on an asteroid; he said the Doctor's account of the repopulation was heresy, since he believed it was due to divine intervention. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen)

Boars were listed in the Avalonian Bestiary of all animal life on the Earth colony Avalon. (PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice)

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A wild boar was, according to Fitz Kreiner, a kind of pig. The Eighth Doctor described the English variety as "often jeopardised", suggesting that the English wild boar had been near extinction on several occasions.

However, the Doctor told Anji Kapoor that he was responsible for reintroducing the wild boar to England in about the year 1987. He claimed that it happened because of an incident with a farmer who worked the land next to his house in Kent. During unexpectedly rough weather, a tree broke open the cage holding the farmer's continental boars. They crossed into the Doctor's land. He then taught them to talk, and they presumably continued to breed as undomesticated boars.

Brewster, a talking boar from centuries later, overheard this story and considered it to be heresy. Like many of his generation, Brewster held that the re-population of the English boar in the 1980s was the result of divine intervention, not mortal meddling. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen)