Common Warthog
Phacochoerus africanus
Common Warthog · Masai Mara · 19 February 2020
A warthog sow and three young in single file across the Mara grassland, which is how they travel - and with tails up, which is how they travel when they mean it. Warthogs are pigs of the open savanna across sub-Saharan Africa, grazing on their knees and sleeping underground.
They reverse into their burrows rather than turning round, so they emerge facing whatever might be waiting. They do not dig them either; they take over holes made by aardvarks. The warts are pads of skin rather than growths, and the male's are much the larger. They take the damage in fights so the skull does not have to.
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