Potamochère

List Espèce S of this kind:

Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Vat, 1822)
Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus, 1758)

The choeropotame ( Potamochoerus choeropotamus ) of Eastern and southernmost Africa is not found in all taxonomies.

reproduction

The thin layer puts low in a nest that it prepares in thick fouré, papering it of grass or reeds. The small ones come in the world blacks or brown with spots and stripes white or yellowish. They do not leave the nest during the first fifteen days; they are separated in 3 months, and lose their clear stripes before the 6 months age

Description

Potamochère is the only large mammal present at the same time on the African continent and Madagascar. It frequent wet forests, savannas and wooded and wet meadows, zones marshy. Its massive and powerful body enables him to penetrate in force in the thickest thickets. As at all suidés, its higher canines are turned up in defenses. It is often called red <>. Primarily night, it often spends the day to sleep in its wallow. Its feet carry glands of which odorous secretions are used to him to mark its territory and to communicate with its congeneric. This very good swimmer lives as a recluse or small groups. Its principal predatory is the panthers and the pythons of Séba, as well as the small cat-like ones, the hyenas and the eagles for the young people. The potamochère nourishes roots, mushrooms; fruits fallen and from groundnuts; he adds has his menu of the insects, Amphibians, reptiles, eggs and oisillons.

External references

PIGTrop the site of the CIRAD dedicated to the porcine breeding and suidés wild in tropical zone

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