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Visayan warty pig
"The name 'warthog' comes from the warts a male has on his snout"
Discover in real lifeFood
fruits, grasses and leaves
Lifetime
10 to 15 years
Weight
20 to 80 pounds
Number of youngsters
2 to 4 youngsters
Wear time
4 months
IUCN Status
seriously threatened
EEP?
yes
Excellent nose
Visayan warty pigs are omnivores. That means they eat plants and meat. Warty pigs have an excellent sense of smell. They can smell food that is buried more than a metre underground. Their snouts have a firm disc made of cartilage. They can use this to dig up their food. This way they can find things like worms, insects, roots and tubers.
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Theme area: A Matter of Taste
You can see the Visayan warty pig in the ‘A Matter of Taste’ theme area. Here, you can delve into the world of food: how animals find food, hunt, or avoid being eaten.
Foresters
Visayan warty pigs use their snouts to dig around in the ground when looking for food. They completely turn over the soil. This may seem like a bad thing, but it actually is very good for the forest. The digging gives the soil more oxygen. This helps plants grow. Visayan warty pigs also eat a lot of fruit. They later poo the seeds of those fruits out. This allows new fruit trees to grow. So Visayan warty pigs are very important for the forests they live in.