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PIGS, BOARS and WARTHOGS
Mammal       -     Vertebrate      -    Omnivore

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WARTHOG

PIGLET

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Male:  Boar

Female:  Sow, Gilt

Young:  Piglet,
Shoat/Shote (young, just weaned)

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PIGS
There are 73 species of pig.

• Farm pigs eat corn, potatoes, grains and soya beans.
• Like to be a group and snuggle up together, nose to nose.
• Like to listen to music, playing with footballs and being massaged.
• Are intelligent animals - as are apes and dolphins.
• Have a good sense of direction.
• Can run at speeds of about 11 miles per hour.
• Eat slowly and actually savour their food.
• Drinks about 14 gallons of water a day.
• Are clean animals and would prefer not to soil their sleeping area.
• Have an excellent sense of smell.
• Don't sweat.
• Are not aggressive.
• Like to bathe in water and mud.
• Make good pets.
• A pig raised on meat is called a hog.
• Female who has not had piglets is called a Gilt.
• Female who has had piglets is called a Sow.
• Swine also refers to pigs, hogs and boars.
• Like to communicate with one another.
• Have more than 20 vocalisations.
• Suffer from anorexia.
• Can suffer from 'mysophobia' - a fear of mud.
• Cannot look up at the sky.
• Are considered to be the 4th most intelligent animal in the world.
• Pigs like to eat Truffles - one of the world's most expensive foods.
• The Pigs that trained to hunt for Truffles are called Trufflehogs.  Female pigs are better Truffle hunters
• Wild boars wash their food.

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WARTHOGS

• Are wild pigs living in the Central Africa and from coast to coast. 
• Have four tusks.
• Are very gentle creatures and avoid fights.
• Eat grasses, plants, berries and seeds (sometimes carrion).
• Use their snout to dig for roots and bulbs etc. 
• Can go for long periods without water - even several months in the dry season.
• Like to wallow in mud.
• Oxpecker birds relieve the warthogs of ticks and other insects that feed on them.
• Main predators are lions, cheetahs, leopards, wild dogs and hyenas.
• Can run at speeds of up to 30 miles an hour.
• Run with their tails erect, like flagpoles.
• Live in burrows and adults back into them, rather than going down head first - but their piglets go down head first.
• Can reach speeds of 29 miles per hour.
• Can live up to 15 years.

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Visit:  Pigs, Boars and Warthogs . COLLECTIVE NOUNS, SIMILES, IDIOMS, METAPHORS and
​                                                            EXPRESSIONS

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A KUNE KUNE PIG FROM NEW ZEALAND

SOWS AND PIGLETS

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POT BELLIED PIG

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