🐗Bushpig
Het boszwijn (Potamochoerus larvatus) is een Afrikaanse zwijnensoort, verwant aan het penseelzwijn (Potamochoerus porcus).
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 71 kg
- Body length
- 1.43 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 23 years
Everything we know about the Bushpig
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass71 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 88 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length1.43 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan23 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length5.69 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity3.0 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation121 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 122 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter sizeabout 3COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 2.7AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range4.47 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.16 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l71 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Bushpig yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familySuidae
- ›genusPotamochoerus
- ›speciesPotamochoerus larvatus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- familySuidae
- genusPotamochoerus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderSuina
- familySuidae
- genusPotamochoerus
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