Dire boars, also known as giant boars, were a type of unusually large and aggressive boar. Unlike ordinary pigs, dire boars were vicious and would attack any creature that approached. Dire boars typically tried to charge their opponents and gore them with their tusks. Giant boars, much like regular boars, traveled in groups known as "sounders." The number of giant boars in a sounder varied, but oftentimes it totaled up to eight. Native to the Northern Greypeak Mountains, Dire Boars were known to be particularly disruptive pests which ate wide swathes of crop fields and trampled local vegetation. Despite their agressive nature, Dire Boar were known to be tamed by the Orcs of Bhuldur and used as savage mounts.