It is hard to guess what a Visayan warty pig weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Visayan warty pig (Sus cebifrons) on average weights 189.4 kg (417.55 lbs).
The Visayan warty pig is from the family Suidae (genus: Sus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.35 meter (4′ 6″). On average, Visayan warty pigs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 4.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
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.
Animals of the same family as a Visayan warty pig
We found other animals of the Suidae family:
- Bornean bearded pig bringing 135.4 kilos (298.51 lbs) to the scale
- Desert warthog bringing 75.61 kilos (166.69 lbs) to the scale
- Wild boar bringing 84.49 kilos (186.27 lbs) to the scale
- Common warthog bringing 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs) to the scale
- Celebes warty pig bringing 53.46 kilos (117.86 lbs) to the scale
- Giant forest hog bringing 196.57 kilos (433.36 lbs) to the scale
- Red river hog bringing 70 kilos (154.32 lbs) to the scale
- Buru babirusa bringing 92.33 kilos (203.55 lbs) to the scale
- Bushpig bringing 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs) to the scale
- Javan warty pig bringing 89.2 kilos (196.65 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Visayan warty pig
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sus cebifrons:
- Fraser’s dolphin with a weight of 164 kilos (361.56 lbs)
- Anoa with a weight of 180.86 kilos (398.73 lbs)
- Hartebeest with a weight of 162.47 kilos (358.18 lbs)
- Père David’s deer with a weight of 165.5 kilos (364.86 lbs)
- Caribbean monk seal with a weight of 198.38 kilos (437.35 lbs)
- Irrawaddy dolphin with a weight of 190 kilos (418.88 lbs)
- Greater kudu with a weight of 205.53 kilos (453.12 lbs)
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with a weight of 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs)
- Sambar deer with a weight of 176 kilos (388.01 lbs)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin with a weight of 186.76 kilos (411.73 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Visayan warty pig
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Visayan warty pig:
- Vicuña with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Philippine warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Iberian ibex with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Giant anteater with a size of 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Snow leopard with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Giant panda with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Antarctic fur seal with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Visayan warty pig
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Visayan warty pig: