How many baby Visayan warty pigs are in a litter?
A Visayan warty pig (Sus cebifrons) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 125 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Suidae family (genus: Sus). An adult Visayan warty pig grows up to a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The Visayan warty pig (Sus cebifrons) is a critically endangered species in the pig genus (Sus). It is endemic to six of the Visayan Islands (Cebu, Negros, Panay, Masbate, Guimaras, and Siquijor) in the central Philippines. It is known by many names in the region (depending on the island and linguistic group) with most translating into ‘wild pig’: baboy ihalas (‘wild pig’ in Cebuano and Hiligaynon), baboy talonon (‘forest pig’ in Hiligaynon), and baboy sulop (‘dark pig’ in Cebuano)The Visayan warty pig is critically endangered due to habitat loss and hunting. It is believed to be extinct in four of the islands in its original native range, with only small surviving populations in Negros and Panay. Due to the small numbers of remaining Visayan warty pigs in the wild, little is known of their behaviors or characteristics outside of captivity. In 2012 the Negros Interior Biodiversity Expedition undertook camera trapping in the Northern Negros Natural Park and gained the first photos taken in the wild of the Visayan warty pig.
Other animals of the family Suidae
Visayan warty pig is a member of the Suidae, as are these animals:
- Desert warthog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bushpig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Giant forest hog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy hog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Javan warty pig with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine warty pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes warty pig with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean bearded pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Red river hog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Wild boar with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Visayan warty pig
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Transcaucasian mole vole
- Black-tailed gerbil
- Silky mouse
- Malayan weasel
- Red-cheeked dunnart
- Australian swamp rat
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat
- Fawn-colored mouse
- Etruscan shrew
- Bush dog
Animals with the same weight as a Visayan warty pig
What other animals weight around 189.4 kg (417.55 lbs)?
- Brown bear usually reaching 196.14 kgs (432.41 lbs)
- Giant forest hog usually reaching 196.57 kgs (433.36 lbs)
- Philippine warty pig usually reaching 189.4 kgs (417.56 lbs)
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 225 kgs (496.04 lbs)
- Caribbean monk seal usually reaching 198.38 kgs (437.35 lbs)
- Hawaiian monk seal usually reaching 223 kgs (491.63 lbs)
- Ross seal usually reaching 208.63 kgs (459.95 lbs)
- Red hartebeest usually reaching 176.12 kgs (388.28 lbs)
- Mountain nyala usually reaching 215 kgs (473.99 lbs)
- Grey seal usually reaching 197.29 kgs (434.95 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Visayan warty pig
Also reaching around 1.35 meter (4′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Anoa gets as big as 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Siberian roe deer gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Brown bear gets as big as 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Sumatran serow gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- South Andean deer gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Harbour porpoise gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Giant panda gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Markhor gets as big as 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)