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Nolan warthog (Phacochoerus africanus africanus)🐾

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SpeciesArtiodactylaSuidae
Mammals

🐾Common warthog

Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin, 1788)

الخنزير الثُؤلولي الشائع (الاسم العلمي: Phacochoerus africanus) هو حيوان من فصيلة الخنزيريات وينتمي لجنس الخنازير الثؤلولية Phacochoerus وينتمي ذلك الجنس أيضا الخنزير الثؤلولي الصحراوي وينتشر في أفريقيا من جنوب أفريقيا حتى جنوب الصحراء في الشمال.

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≈ 1.5× your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
91 kg
Body length
1.36 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
21 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common warthog

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
91 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 100 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1.36 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
133 g
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Maximum lifespan
21 years
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  • 30 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
6.04 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
1.6 years
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Gestation
168 days
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  • 164 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 3
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Home range
1.55 km²
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Population density
0.58 per km²
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Volume l
91 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common warthog yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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More about the Common warthog

Closest relative on this site
🐃 Addax — last shared an ancestor ≈ 53 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants80%
carrion10%
fruit10%
In other languages
szavannai varacskosdisznó (hu), خنزير وحشي أفريقي (ar), knobbelzwijn (nl), Vårtsvin (sv), африканский бородавочник (ru), Düğmeli domuz (tr) … and 26 more languages

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