Javanese pustular pig

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Javanese pustular pig
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Javanese pustular pig ( Sus verrucosus )

Systematics
Superordinate : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla (Artiodactyla)
Subordination : Pig-like (Suina)
Family : Real pigs (Suidae)
Genre : Sus
Type : Javanese pustular pig
Scientific name
Sus verrucosus
Müller , 1840

The Javanese pustular pig ( Sus verrucosus ) is a species of mammal from the family of real pigs (Suidae) that lives in Indonesia .

features

Skull ( Museum Wiesbaden Collection )

The fur color of the Javanese pustular pigs varies from reddish to black, the underside is yellowish and sharply delineated from the upper side. Typical of this species are the mane that runs along the neck, the slender, relatively long legs and the rather long tail. The head is large, the face elongated and, as in all pustular pigs , has three pairs of pustular swellings. These animals reach a head trunk length of 90 to 190 centimeters and a weight of 45 to 110 kilograms, whereby the males are significantly heavier than the females.

distribution and habitat

Javanese pustular pigs are on the Indonesian island of Java and offshore islands such as Madura . Their habitat are forests up to 800 meters above sea level.

Way of life

Javanese pustular pigs live in family groups made up of the female and her offspring; adult males are mostly solitary. They tend to be crepuscular or nocturnal and, like most pigs, are omnivores that feed on roots, fruits, small animals and carrion.

Not much is known about reproduction. The gestation period is around four months, the litter size is three to nine (an average of six) and most births occur in the rainy season between January and March.

Javanese pustules and humans

The island of Java, the home of these animals, is extremely densely populated, which has led to their habitat being increasingly restricted and fragmented. There is also hunting and the risk of hybridization with wild boars . This has led to the kind of the IUCN as endangered ( endangered ) is performed.

In 2007, a conservation breeding program for this species was launched in cooperation with the Los Angeles Zoo and the Zoological Society for Species and Population Protection (ZGAP). In the Cikananga Wildlife Center on Java, about 200 kilometers south of the capital Jakarta, animals are bred in captivity to study the biology of this hardly documented species and to enable these animals to be released into the wild.

literature

  • Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammals of the World . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1999. ISBN 0-8018-5789-9
  • DE Wilson & DM Reeder: Mammal Species of the World . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tasks of the Conservation Breeding Program in the Cikananga Wildlife Center accessed on January 15, 2014
  2. ↑ Heilbronn Voice - "In action for forgotten animals" by Alexander Hettich accessed on January 15, 2014
  3. ↑ Goals of conservation breeding in the CCBC accessed on January 15, 2014

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