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Warthogs, bushpigs and their kin form the family of true pigs. It is native to Eurasia and Africa. These animals root through the soil with their snouts and eat almost anything. The domestic pig descends from a wild Eurasian species. Males of several species have long curved tusks.
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Suidae
Potamochoerus larvatus · Least concern
Bushpig family life is unusual: the males are the main carers of the piglets, while the sows only visit the nest to nurse them. The alpha sow builds that nest, up to 3 m wide and 1 m high, from hay, twigs and flood debris. Bushpigs live up to 4,000 m on Kilimanjaro.
Photo: Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa (CC BY 2.0)
Suidae
Phacochoerus africanus · Least concern
The common warthog is the only pig adapted to grazing on the savanna. Its upper tusks can grow to 25.5 cm, and the shorter lower pair is sharpened like a razor against them every time it opens and closes its mouth.
Photo: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Suidae
Phacochoerus aethiopicus · Least concern
A species believed extinct was still living in the Horn of Africa: DNA showed that the desert warthog, long taken for a variant of the common warthog, belongs to it. It averages 125 cm and 75 kg, with more hook-shaped 'warts'.
Photo: jeanpaulboerekamps (CC0)
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