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Warthog

Phacochoerus africanus

Photo by BrunoMoller
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Field Notes

Description:

•They are the only pigs adapted to grazing and savanna habitats.
•They eat grass, roots, barries, other fruits, bark, fungi, insects, eggs and carrion.
•They live in abandoned burrows of aardvarks.

Habitat:

Grassland, savanna, woodland

Notes:

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PublishedJanuary 5, 2015

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