Boar

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A stock photo of a wild razorback boar

Several wild razorback boars have been featured in Lost and The Lost Experience. Wild boars can reach up to 440 lb (200 kg) and can be up to 6 feet (1.8 m) long. If surprised or cornered, they may become aggressive and can cause injury with their tusks. However, this is quite rare and usually only occurs if a sow feels the need to defend her piglets.

1 On the Island
- 1.1 Native to the Island
2 The Lost Experience
3 Production notes

On the Island

In several early episodes, the castaways hunted boar for food. ("Walkabout")
Sawyer was tormented by a boar that may have been possessed by the spirit of Frank Duckett whom he killed in Australia. Sawyer eventually caught the boar, but decided to let it live, in contrast with the tree frog he later caught then killed. ("Outlaws")
Locke and Charlie find the body of a boar that's apparently been killed by a polar bear. ("Further Instructions")
During the Tailies' trail to the Beach camp, Jin is chased and knocked down by a boar which results in finding Goodwin's body. ("...And Found")
Sawyer and Desmond kill a boar and host a feast on the beach. ("Left Behind")

Native to the Island

The boars in Lost may or may not be native to the Island. Although razorback boar are not native to islands in the South Pacific, many times crews of ships would transport them to islands they found as a pre-emptive source of food should the island be later colonized. The time between discovery and colonization could be many years, giving four boars (2 male and two females) the opportunity to have multiple litters before colonists arrived. Wild chickens were also transported in the same way.

The Lost Experience

Still from 1980 Psychology Test Orientation video showing a wild boar (middle right). Notice its resemblence to the boar seen in the stock photo above

A boar appeared in two clues from The Lost Experience:

In several frames of the 1980 DHARMA psychology test video. (Thehansofoundation.org)
The same photo appeared again in several frames of Glyph 57 on Rachel Blake's real blog. (Hansoexposed.com)

Production notes

The "Lost: On Location (Season 1)" special featurette starts with a clip called "The Trouble with Boars". (Lost: The Complete First Season)
In a deleted scene of "Two for the Road", Hurley told Libby that he missed his hog, a pot-bellied pig named Chester.