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The largest domestic breeds push up to 300 to 400 kilos. We had one free-range pig on our farm that was certainly over a quarter-tonne, and she was agile enough that she'd occasionally run down chickens and eat them, and jaws strong enough to chew up cow skulls left over from home-kill.

Pigs are generally smart and friendly if they haven't been mistreated. I would not want to mess with one.

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People like to joke about all the native Australian animals that can kill you, but the animal I was most afraid of as a farm kid was the feral pigs. I saw photos of recently shot pigs that were too big to fit on the back of a ute, and often found small trees completely uprooted by them.

Fortunately the largest feral pigs I ever ran into were a litter and a small sow that preferred to scatter than stand their ground.

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