"You
can tell male and female warthogs apart by the number of
 "warts" on
their face. The male has four and the female has two. The warts are not
really warts of course; they are made up of skin and tissue. A group of
warthogs is called a sounder of warthogs."
"They normally spend the night in a burrow. They enter the burrow
backwards so that their defensive tusks face the entrance and can ward
of predators. The belief is that old and injured warthogs often die in
their burrow which is why you don’t often find warthog bodies in the
bush."
"Warthog
and aardvark holes are the curse of cross country bush drivers since
they are big enough for a wheel to fall into. Warthogs can dig their own
burrows but prefer to take over an old aardvark or porcupine burrow, and
then reshape it to their taste. Livestock on farms (like calves) have
been lost by falling into warthog burrows and people, especially
children, are easily able to get inside a warthog burrow. Please don’t
try this with your own children" |
