Educational resources on Bushpig

Bushpig or Potamochoerus larvatus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the Bushpig

Academic web links for the Bushpig.

ADW: Potamochoerus larvatus: Information
Potamochoerus larvatus, or bushpig, ranges from Somalia to eastern and southern former Zaire and southwards to Cape Province and Natal in South Africa.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Potamochoerus_larvatus.html

Comparative Placentation > Red River Hog
The "bushpig" (red river hog) has 34 chromosomes (Melander & Hansen-Melander, 1980). The sex chromosomes, as described by these authors, are unusual in their
placentation.ucsd.edu/hog.html

ADW: Potamochoerus: Classification
taxon ... Potamochoerus larvatus (bushpig)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Potamochoerus.html

East African Research Sites
Many avian species, tree hyrax, duikers, golden cats, civits, genet, mongoose, squirrel, dormouse, African buffalo, bushbuck, sitatungu, waterbuck, bushpig, warthog, giant forest
www.indiana.edu/~primate/sites.html

The Bwindi-Impenetrable Great Ape Project
In addition, there are duiker (Cephalophus nigrifrons), elephant (Loxodonta africana), bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus), bushpig (Potamochoerus larvatus), giant forest hog
www-rcf.usc.edu/~stanford/bigape.html

ADW: Suidae: Classification
taxon ... bushpig and red river hog)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Suidae.html

ADW: Suidae: Pictures
Phacochoerus africanus: common warthog Phacochoerus africanus : bushpig Potamochoerus larvatus: red river hog Potamochoerus porcus: red river hog Potamochoerus porcus
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Suidae.html

Who's Who: Jane Goodall
She also found that the chimpanzees were not mainly vegetarian, but that they hunted monkeys, baboon infants, bushpig, bushbuck, and other small mammals.
sln.fi.edu/qa98/biology/journals/part7.html

ADW: Phacochoerus africanus: Information
African swine fever virus infection of the bushpig (Potamochoerus porcus) and its significance in the epidemiology of the disease. Veterinary Microbiology, 62: 1-15.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Phacochoerus_africanus.html

ADW: Potamochoerus: Pictures
...bushpig Potamochoerus larvatus: red river hog Potamochoerus porcus: red river hog Potamochoerus porcus : red river hog Potamochoerus porcus: red river hog
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Potamochoerus.html