A preliminary study on morphology and morphometry of wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations in Khabr and Golestan National Parks and Minoo Island, Iran

This study has considered morphologyand morphometry of wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations in Khabr and Golestan National Parks and Minoo Island, Iran. 29 body and cranial characters were measured. The normality of data was analyzed by Kolmogorov- Smironov test. Independent sample T-Test was used to test the statistical significance between different sexes in these regions. Significance of differences among of different populations was tested using one-way ANOVA followed by a Duncan test. Also, Discriminant Analysis was usedto classifying different populations. Results indicated that there are significant differences between male and female sexes in the Minoo Island (p