Bearded Pig

Taxobox
name = Bearded PigMSW3 Grubb| id = 14200038]
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Pigs & Peccaries Specialist Group|year=1996|id=41772|title=Sus barbatus|downloaded=12 May 2006]


image_caption = At the London Zoo

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image2_caption = At the San Diego Zoo
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Suidae
genus = "Sus"
species = "S. barbatus"
binomial = "Sus barbatus"
binomial_authority = Müller, 1838
subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
subdivision = "Sus barbatus oi" "Sus barbatus barbatus" The Bearded Pig ("Sus barbatus"), also known as the Bornean Bearded Pig, is a species of pig. It can be recognized by its prominent beard. It also sometimes has tassels on its tail. It is primarily found in Southeast Asia—Sumatra, Borneo, the eastern Philippines—where it inhabits rainforests and mangrove forests. The Bearded Pig lives in a family. It can reproduce from the age of 18 months, and can be cross-bred with other species in the family Suidae. There are about 25 members of this species in U.S zoos. The San Diego Zoo was the first zoo in the Western Hemisphere to breed them. The London Zoo is the only U.K zoo to currently house the species.Fact|date=June 2007

ubspecies

There are two subspecies of this pig:
*"Sus barbatus barbatus"
*Western Bearded Pig ("Sus barbatus oi")

External links

*" [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sus_barbatus.html Sus barbatus] " by Nicole Knibbe in University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
* [http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/sgs/pphsg/APchap5-5.htm Pigs, Peccaries and Hippos Status Survey and Action Plan (1993)] Chapter 5.5 by Julian O. Caldecott, Raleigh A. Blouch and Alastair A. Macdonald.

References

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