Playful warthogs at Arusha National Park, Tanzania
Even during the dry season, Arusha National Park is lush and green. Most of the area consists of dense forest vegetation, yet there are small open plains like this one. Here are 3 warthogs playing with each other. They are not territorial. You can tell males and females apart from the amount of warths: males have two pairs, females have one pair.
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.
Similar species: Even-toed Ungulates
By Ferdy Christant
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Uploaded Sep 9, 2013. Captured Aug 29, 2013 10:47.
