the warthog has a withers-height of approximately 80 cm with a weight of partially over 140 kg. It possesses a cylindrical one, something sagging torso, a wide head and thin, middle-high legs. The long, thin tail carries an Endquaste normally. The sparse Behaarung consists of white or dun bristles, that can have extended on vertexes and backs to a mane. Often, a white sideburns exists. The western forms have a dewlap at the neck.
The name "Warthog" comes from from 3 few face-warts. That is skin-structures, the verknorpeln, but not heals with the skull-bones. The warts situated under the eye of the Keilers can become 15 cm long. Calluses, on which the warthogs settle at the forage, are at the forefront of the wrists. The gray skin gleams through the thin Behaarung through. The cuspids, that can become 35 cm long with the boar, are showy. The tusks are bent sideways and upward. The boys are ungestreift and have one relatively dense and short Behaarung.
Habitat The warthogs prefer grass-savannas, especially then, if low bushes exist, in Ethiopia and Kenya, at the Kilimandscharo, until in 3000 m of height. In higher situations, warthogs visit grass-thickets. they love the proximity of water, is however to be also found it from waters far away.
Way of life The packs of the warthogs are family-associations mostly, that consist of the two parents-animals and the boy of the last throw. Sometimes, also the boys from the previous year participate as well. If is more than 4 equally aged kids in one pack, one must assume that it adopted brook foreign boy. The boars last many times away from the pack. Several families can live in an Areal simultaneously, and the same hiding places visit. A pack often hikes in the goose-march. With fast locomotion than consequence-signal, they hold the tails vertically steeply upward. If members of a pack meet each other, they welcome themselves through grunt-lutes and are afraid mutually by together-rubbing its flanks. A part of the social skin-care is this reciprocal shredder. Otherwise, wallowing and barns serve at termite-constructions, rocks and such only the body-care.
The area lived in by a warthog-family includes only few hectares. Here, they have also its silence-places under dense shrubbery. Warthogs prefer the abandoned caves of aardvarks, who dig its holes themselves, as shelter. The single access fits exactly for an adult warthog. With danger, the young pigs first vanish in the Erdbau, then, the adults follow in that they slide backwards into the access-tube and its head-arms turn the opponent. Aardvark-holes consist of several chambers of approximately 1 m of diameter and 0,5 m of height. they are in 1-2 m of depth. In a lived in construction became 90 percent of humidity and measured a temperature from 30 °C. The residential-chambers of the aardvark-holes taken over by warthogs offer also shelter for certain bat-types. Warthogs select quarters, that lie in hills or at hillsides, so that sudden downpours don't place the residential-chambers under water. The soil at the entrance must be so solid that it cannot become aufgekratzt from lions or hyenas. In bigger aardvark-holes, several warthog-families often find shelter.
In contrast to other members of this relationship-group, warthogs are active during the day. In the midday-heat, they rest at shady places. At night, they visit its caves. They in the Wohnareal of the warthogs of living mammals and birds warn the pigs of dangers through its behavior. Crowns and Waffenkiebitze are aware guards for it. Driven into the narrowness, warthogs sit down vigorously to the weir. Those keenly ground low cuspids (guns) are extraordinarily effective arms, that they hit the opponent of the body. Main-enemies of the warthogs are lions, leopards, hyenas and hyena-dogs. Young are furthermore endangered through jackals and eagles.
Reproduction Warthogs apparently live in monogamy. At the combination-duels, the boars fight together by seeking to overwhelm themselves through forehead-pressure and muzzle-pushes. The cuspids rarely are put in as arms on that occasion. The face-warts serve as protection against hard hits. The with Keilern especially big developed upper cuspids (Haderer) are more than a weapon a Drohsignal.
In the combination-prelude, it is pursued brook by the boar. If harnt the sow, the Keiler marks at this place with its own urine. After 170-175 days of Tragzeit, it tosses brook in a burrow. In accordance with the 2 teat-pairs is raised by a throw at most 4 kids. If a throw consists of more than 4 boys, the surplus ones perish. One brook can toss twice per year. In East-Africa, most boys are placed in the small rain-time, therefore in September and Octobers. In west-Africa, the Setzzeit is in June.
it brook retreats with the newborns. Later, it enters a pack again with its descendants. With 2-3 years, warthogs are sexually mature. Females were reproductive-capable in captivity already with one year.
Food Warthogs primarily live from short grass. It is the tall grass for it of advantage, if they divide its residential-area with types of animal, grazes and favors the formation of short grass with it. These pigs use its wide muzzle for digging. The mighty cuspids are no actual grave-tools. its attitude is characteristic of the warthogs with the eating. they settle on that occasion on its wrists.
Continuance Warthogs are rather frequent.
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