Endangered
Javan warty pig
Sus verrucosus
The Javan warty pig is an even-toed ungulate in the family Suidae.
Appearance
It has a nuchal and dorsal crest that gradually becomes shorter towards the tail. Young are uniformly coloured.
It has three pairs of facial warts. The largest pair is below the ears, the second under each eye, and the smallest pair above the upper canines.
Males reach a weight of about 108.2 kg (239 lb), whereas females weigh only about 44 kg (97 lb).
Range and habitat
The Javan warty pig occurs in Leuweung Sancang Nature Reserve and Meru Betiri National Park in southern Java, Nusakambangan Nature Reserve on the Nusa Kambangan island and in a protected area on the Bawean island. It lives at elevations below 800 m (2,600 ft) in grassland and secondary forest. It is endemic to the Indonesian islands Java and Bawean, and is considered extinct on Madura.
This method of reintroduction of the offspring will ensure the long-term survival of the species.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The Javan warty pig is mainly a solitary creature, but groups of three or four individuals have been sighted. It is nocturnal and crepuscular.
The piglets are born in a nest and nursed for the following three to four months.
In crisis
It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1996. According to the IUCN Red List, S. Verrucosus was first declared vulnerable in 1988 and listed as endangered in 1996. A drastic 53% drop in the population occurred from 1982 through 2006.
A recent study estimated a population of 172–377 individuals, making the Javan warty pig one of the rarest pig species. The main threat to this species is habitat encroachment by humans.
Javan warty pig is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Javan warty pig, Wikidata item Q1353785. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
