Least ConcernAardvark
Orycteropus afer
43 countries11 parks
Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 3 species of pig, spread across 2 families (Orycteropodidae, Suidae).
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 3.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 43 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It can eat as many as 50,000 ants and termites in a single night's foraging, found by smell and hooked out with a tongue up to 30 cm long.
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It lives in savannah, grassland, woodland and scrub across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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It can dig almost a metre of tunnel in barely 15 seconds with its powerful front claws.
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The largest wild pig in the world: the males top 275 kg.
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It is the largest wild pig in the world, and yet it was not scientifically described until 1904, one of the last large African mammals to be recognised by Western science.
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Unlike almost all other suids it hardly roots at all: it grazes grass and browses leaves, and its snout is less adapted to digging than a wild boar's.
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Its gestation lasts, by the stockman's classic rule, three months, three weeks and three days: about 114 days.
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It has hardly any functional sweat glands, which is why it wallows in mud to cool down and to protect itself from the sun and from parasites.
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