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The giant forest hog is, on average, the largest living species of suid. Adults can measure from 1.3 to 2.1 m (4 ft 3 in to 6 ft 11 in) in head-and-body length, with an additional tail length of 25 to 45 cm (9.8 to 17.7 in).
The preferred habitat of babirusa is tropical rainforest along river banks. [8] It appears that they have been confined to the higher grounds in the interior despite occurring in lowland areas near coasts in the past. [8] They are active during the daytime.
They are small to medium animals, varying in size from 58 to 66 cm (23 to 26 in) in length, and 6 to 9 kg (13 to 20 lb) in weight in the case of the pygmy hog, to 130–210 cm (4.3–6.9 ft) and 100–275 kg (220–606 lb) in the giant forest hog. [4] They have large heads and short necks, with relatively small eyes and prominent ears.
The tail is long and thin and is tipped with a small brush of coarse hair. The general colour is mid to dark brown but the crest is sometimes whitish. The desert warthog differs from the bushpig (Potamochoerus porcus) and the giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni) in having facial warts and proportionately larger tusks. [7]
Although covered in bristly hairs, a warthog's body and head appear largely bare, from a distance, with only a crest of hair along the back and the tufts on the face and tail being obvious. The English name "wart"-hog refers to their facial wattles, which are particularly distinct in males.
The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is a very small and endangered species of pig and the only species in the genus Porcula.Endemic to India, the pygmy hog is a suid native of the alluvial grasslands in the foothills of the Himalayas, at elevations of up to 300 m (980 ft).
The main habitat requirement is dense cover: bushpigs avoid open forests or savannas. [10] They can be found in forests with high trees, montane forests, forest fringes, thick bushveld, gallery forests, flooded forest, swampland or cultivated areas as habitat. [6] [10] They occur up to 4,000 metres in altitude on Mount Kilimanjaro. [10]
Its habitat consists mainly of moist evergreen forest [27] and also seasonal dry semi-deciduous forest. The habitat is formed of 90% forest area, 36% artificial terrestrial landscape while the remaining area has not been categorised. [9] The park area receives an annual average rainfall of 1380 mm. [26]