Wild boar with moustache

Description

Length of the body: 100-165 cm Height with the garrot: 72-85 cm Length of the tail: 20-30 cm Weight: 150 kg

Reproduction

Sexual maturity: 18 months Gestation period: approximately 4 months Cut range: 2-8

At the time when the female will put low, it leaves the group and builds a nest in the thickets. The ranges are generally reduced (2-8 newborns). They remain with the nest during ten days before joining the group. Whereas weaning is carried out around 3 months, the young people follow their mother during one year.

Ecology and behavior

The wild boar with barb is active during the day and remains most of the time on the same territory within stable groups. Nevertheless, it is about the only species of suidés which carries out an annual migration. Whereas one is unaware of still if this phenomenon is an answer to the lack of food or due to a regular migratory cycle, the adults can gather per hundreds and travel by night. Apprehensive, they take refuge the day in the coppices.

Geographical distribution

Filipino: islands of Palawan, Balabac, Calamian; Indonesia: Sumatra, island of Banka, Rhio arch., Borneo; Peninsula of Malaysia.

Statute

UICN: Be likely to be threatened Even if the Wild boar population with barb decreased because of destruction of its habitat, there remains still rather common.

External bonds

'' Sus barbatus '' on the site of the CIRAD dedicated to the porcine breeding and suidés wild in tropical zone

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