What is the maximal age a Red river hog reaches?
An adult Red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) usually gets as old as 20 years.
Red river hogs are around 120 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 750 grams (1.65 lbs) and measure 4.6 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Suidae family (genus: Potamochoerus), their offspring is 3 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.37 meter (4′ 6″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus), also known as the bush pig (but not to be confused with P. larvatus, common name “bushpig”), is a wild member of the pig family living in Africa, with most of its distribution in the Guinean and Congolian forests. It is rarely seen away from rainforests, and generally prefers areas near rivers or swamps.
Animals of the same family as a Red river hog
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Suidae):
- Philippine warty pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Giant forest hog becoming 18 years old
- Celebes warty pig with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan warty pig with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean bearded pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Buru babirusa becoming 24 years old
- Pygmy hog becoming 12 years old
- Bushpig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Common warthog becoming 15 years old
- Wild boar becoming 21 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Red river hog
With an average age of 20 years, Red river hog are in good companionship of the following animals:
- White-tailed deer usually reaching 23 years
- Arabian oryx usually reaching 20 years
- Binturong usually reaching 22.67 years
- Bechstein’s bat usually reaching 21 years
- African brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 22.83 years
- Red slender loris usually reaching 16.33 years
- Fossa (animal) usually reaching 20 years
- Eastern gray squirrel usually reaching 24 years
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur usually reaching 19.25 years
- Nabarlek usually reaching 17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Red river hog
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Bunny rat
- Red-nosed mouse
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Mountain pygmy possum
- Large mole
- Deroo’s mouse
- Salt marsh harvest mouse
- Comb-toed jerboa
- Middle East blind mole-rat
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
Weighting as much as Red river hog
A fully grown Red river hog reaches around 70 kg (154.32 lbs). So do these animals:
- Dama gazelle weighting 71.42 kilos (157.45 lbs) on average
- Pantropical spotted dolphin weighting 65.72 kilos (144.89 lbs) on average
- Bushpig weighting 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs) on average
- Hirola weighting 79.13 kilos (174.45 lbs) on average
- Burmeister’s porpoise weighting 60 kilos (132.28 lbs) on average
- White-tailed deer weighting 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs) on average
- Puku weighting 71.23 kilos (157.04 lbs) on average
- Nilgiri tahr weighting 73.94 kilos (163.01 lbs) on average
- Arabian oryx weighting 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs) on average
- Australophocaena dioptrica weighting 65 kilos (143.3 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Red river hog
Those animals grow as big as a Red river hog:
- Grant’s gazelle with 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Gemsbok with 1.62 meter (5′ 4″)
- Caspian seal with 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Grant’s gazelle with 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Pampas deer with 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Giant anteater with 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Abbott’s duiker with 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Barbary sheep with 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Spotted seal with 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- Hirola with 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)