Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries

Introduction

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Table 1 Worldwide occurrences, conservation status and main habitats of wild pigs and peccaries according to the 2008 or, when available, 2016 IUCN Red

List of Threatened Species (for more details on the species distribution and status see the related chapters in this book).

Species Habitat Population

estimation

Status (IUCN) Trend Occurrence

Sulawesi babirusa

Babyrousa celebensis

Tropical rainforest Unknown Vulnerable Decreasing Indonesia

Moluccan babirusa

Babyrousa babyrussa

Tropical rainforest Unknown Vulnerable Decreasing Indonesia

Togian babirusa

Babyrousa

togeanensis

Tropical rainforest 500 Endangered Decreasing Indonesia

Common warthog

Phacochoerus

africanus

Moist and dry savanna

and woodland

Unknown Least Concern Decreasing Sub-Saharan Africa

Desert warthog

Phacochoerus

aethiopicus

Dry savanna and

woodland

Unknown Least Concern Decreasing Horn of Africa and

Kenya

Forest hog

Hylochoerus

meinertzhageni

Different forest types Unknown Least Concern Decreasing West, Central and

East Africa

Bushpig

Potamochoerus

larvatus

Woodland savanna,

riverine forest

Unknown Least Concern Stable Central, East and

South Africa

Red river hog

Potamochoerus

porcus

Rainforest gallery

forest, woodland

savanna

Unknown Least Concern Decreasing Central and West

Africa

Visayan warty pig

Sus cebifrons

Primary–secondary

forest

Unknown Critically

Endangered

Decreasing Philippines

Philippine warty pig

Sus philippensis

Montane forest Unknown Vulnerable Decreasing Philippines

Mindoro warty pig

Sus oliveri

Forest, grassland Unknown Endangered Decreasing Philippines

Palawan bearded pig

Sus ahoenobarbus

Primary–secondary

forest

Unknown Vulnerable Decreasing Philippines

Sunda bearded pig

Sus barbatus

Tropical rainforest Unknown Vulnerable Decreasing Asia, Indonesia,

Malaysia, Philippines

Sulawesi warty pig

Sus celebensis

Rainforest, open

grasslands

Unknown Near Threatened Decreasing Indonesia

Javan/Bawean warty

pig Sus verrucosus/

blouchi

Teak forest, cultivated

areas

172-377 (Bawean

warty pig)

Endangered Decreasing Indonesia

Eurasian wild boar

Sus scrofa

Woodlands, rainfor-

est, grasslands,

semi-deserts

Unknown Least Concern Increasing (Europe);

Unknown or Decreasing

(Asia, Indonesia)

Eurasia, North Africa

Pygmy hog Porcula

salvania

Tall grassland,

shrubland

250 Endangered Decreasing India, Bhutan, Nepal

Chacoan peccary

Catagonus wagneri

Xerophytic thorn

forest

8200 Critically

Endangered

Decreasing South America

Collared peccary

Pecari tajacu

From tropical forests

to deserts

Unknown Least Concern Stable USA, Central and

South America

White-lipped

peccary Tayassu

pecari

Tropical forest, grass-

lands, woodlands

Unknown Vulnerable Decreasing Central and South

America

aims to fill some of these knowledge gaps and provide a broad

audience with an authoritative account of everything about pigs

and peccaries you would ever want to know.

The idea to edit a major work on the ecology, conservation

and management of two entire taxonomic families (Suidae and

Tayassuidae) might seem ambitious. With Mario having done

a similar book on wild cattle, Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour

of Wild Cattle with James Burton, also published by Cambridge

University Press, we believed that it was worth trying the

same for pigs and peccaries. We expected that it would take a

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