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Table 1 Overview of the number of plant taxa: svinjars’ plant knowledge and authors’ observations, species that were known by svinjars as eaten or avoided by pigs and/or observed as eaten or avoided by pigs

From: Preserving for the future the — once widespread but now vanishing — knowledge on traditional pig grazing in forests and marshes (Sava-Bosut floodplain, Serbia)

Categories of knowledge depth

Number of plant taxa (from the analysed 192)

Trees and shrubs

Grasses, sedges and rushes

Others (herbs etc.)

Well known

28

12

62

Moderately known

3

3

21

Little known

6

5

41

Not known

0

1

10

Total

37

21

134

Pig foraging behaviour

Svinjars’ knowledge

Authors’ observations

Overlaps

Regularly eaten, loved

61

28

21

Nibbled, rarely eaten

37

21

10

Not eaten

56

17

8

No knowledge by svinjars / No observation by the authors

38

126

10

Total

192

192

49