Red River Hogs
Meet the most colourful members of the pig family. We are home to brothers ‘Kwango’, ‘Sankuru’, and ‘Lokoro’.
A powerful snout
Like all members of the pig family, Red River hogs are known for their snouts, which are key to their sense of smell and touch and help them forage for food. They have a highly varied diet that includes tubers, fruits, and even bird eggs, snails, and reptiles. This species has scent glands that they will use to mark their territory.
- IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (at relatively low risk of extinction)
- Type: Mammal
- Habitat: Dry forests, rainforests, and savannahs of western and central Africa
- Diet: Omnivore – tubers, grasses, and eggs
- Size: 102 to 127 centimetres long
- Weight: 45 to 129 kilograms
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Fun Facts about Red River Hogs
They may have warts on their snouts, which provide protection from tusk damage during fights.
Red River hogs are capable swimmers if needed.
This species is also known as the “tufted pig” because of its whiskers and tufted ears.
They primarily forage at night.
Red River hogs have been observed following chimpanzees to scavenge dropped food and eating elephant dung for its seeds.
A Red River hog will dig burrows under dense vegetation to rest in.
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