Shoulder Height: 72 cm, Mass: 68-72 kg, Gestation: 160-170 days; average litter 3-4 piglets.

The warthog is a gregarious, diurnal that lives in abandoned aardvark holes. It enters its hole backwards, a protective measure which enables it to make a quick escape. The male has two pairs of warts. The pair on the muzzle is absent in the female. The warthog is fond of wallowing and rubbing its mud-covered body on stumps, rocks and trunks of trees. Its habit of rooting for grass rhizomes often leads to the creation of a wallow. Sight is poor altought it has good scent and hearing. When approached a warthog will often advance towards you, running off only when certain what you are. It falls prey to lion, leopard, wild dog and cheetah.

Round in shape and dull, greenish brown in colour. Not unlike zebra faeces which are more elongated and crack across the middle.

Spoor: Four toes each foot. The lateral toes, as with the bushpig, do not touch the ground as they are located higher up on the leg. Length of spoor is similar to bushpig, but width is narrower and spoor is more pointed in the front.

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