PIGS, BOARS and WARTHOGS
Mammal       -     Vertebrate      -    Omnivore
Male -   Boar:      Female - Sow. Gilt:      Young -  Piglet. Shoat/Shote (young, just weaned pig)
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WARTHOG
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PIGLET

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.
  • Pigs 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.
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.
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
General:
  1. A drift of pigs
  2. A doylt of (tame) pigs
  3. A drove of pigs
  4. A flock of pigs
  5. A herd of pigs 
  6. A sounder of (wild) pigs
Boars:
  1. A singular of boars
  2. A herd of boars
  3. A sounder of boars (wild boars)
Hogs:
  1. A drift of hogs
  2. A drove of hogs
  3. A parcel of hogs
  4. A passel of hogs
  5. A sounder of hogs
  6. A team of hogs
Piglets:
  1. A farrow of piglets
  2. A litter of piglets
  3. A squeal of piglets
Pigs
  1. A drove of pigs
  2. A fleet of pigs
  3. A herd of pigs
  4. A sounder of pigs
Swine:
  1. A doylt of (tame) swine
  2. A drift of (tame) swine
  3. A drove of swine
  4. A herd of swine
  5. A sounder of (wild) swine
  6. A trip of (tame) swine
Warthogs:
  1. A sounder of warthogs
Wild Boar
     1 .  A sounder of wild boar
IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS
  1. A male chauvinist pig
  2. A pig in a poke
  3. A pig's ear
  4. Be a hog
  5. Big enough to choke a hog
  6. Bleed like a pig
  7. Bring home the bacon
  8. Buy a pig in a poke
  9. Cast pearls before swine
  10. Dirty rotten swine1
  11. Eat high on/off the hog
  12. Eat like a pig
  13. Even a blind hog occasionally finds an acorn
  14. Go hot-wild
  15. Go the whole hog
  16. Guinea-pig
  17. In a pig's eye
  18. Independent as a hog on ice
  19. Hogwash
  20. Like a stuck pig
  21. Living high on a hog
  22. Make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
  23. On the pig's back
  24. Pearls before swine
  25. Pig it
  26. Pig out
  27. Piggy bank
  28. Pig-headed
  29. Piggyback
  30. Pigs in clover
  31. Pigs might fly
  32. Road hog
  33. Sell the pig and buy me out
  34. Sweating like a pig
  35. To cast pearls before swine
  36. To go hog wild
  37. To hog
  38. When pigs fly
SIMILES
  1. As amusing as a piglet
  2. As fat as a pig
  3. As happy as a pig in mud
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SOWS AND PIGLETS
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A KUNE KUNE PIG FROM NEW ZEALAND
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POT BELLIED PIG