Common warthog

Phacochoerus africanus · Suidae

The common warthog is a wild member of the pig family (Suidae) 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.

Where the Common warthog lives

Recorded in South Africa, Benin, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Uganda, Botswana, Senegal, Zimbabwe and Zambia (Africa).

Most records fall in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Rift Valley, KwaZulu-Natal, Arusha and Eastern Cape.

See the Common warthog’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 19,946 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.