
Warthogs at Arusha National Park
Throughout our trip to Tanzania, we found warthogs to be extremely nervous animals that keep their distance. In Arusha they are far more relaxed, as the park has very few predators. Fun facts about warthogs: when they graze, they often do so whilst kneeling down their front legs. At night they enter their burrows, and do so walking backwards, tusks facing the exit.
The warthog or common warthog is a wild member of the pig family found in grassland, savanna, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa. In the past, it was commonly treated as a subspecies of ''P. aethiopicus'', but today that scientific name is restricted to the desert warthog of northern Kenya, Somalia, and eastern Ethiopia.