A west eurasian, large warty pig from the Pliocene and early Pleistocene. It was part of a group of fauna that today would seem exotic in the region, like tapirs, macaques and large antelopes. As the climate was getting colder and drier with the advance of the Pleistocene, these animals that prefered lush forests and swamps would go extinct and be replaced by more familiar fauna of the steppe and pine forest. In the case of Sus strozzii, its replacement was the modern eurasian boar, Sus scrofa, a tremendously adaptable omnivore.
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