What term describes the inherent behavioral flexibility allowing the boar to modify its environment rather than needing a specific habitat?

Niche creation

The concept of niche creation refers to the active role an organism takes in modifying its immediate surroundings to better suit its own requirements, contrasting sharply with specialized animals that must locate environments already meeting their specific needs. Wild boars exemplify this flexibility; through continuous behaviors like rooting, they physically alter the forest floor. While this alteration is often detrimental to human agriculture, in natural woodlands, these small disturbances created by digging can actually be beneficial. By clearing patches of established growth, rooting opens up spaces on the forest floor, allowing sunlight to penetrate and promoting the germination of new plant species. This self-modification capability—their willingness to shape the landscape rather than passively fit into it—is a fundamental reason *Sus scrofa* can colonize such a wide variety of global environments successfully.