Habitat
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It prefers areas with short grass and mud pools. It also prefers woodland, grassplains (especially floodplains), vleis and open areas surrounding pans and water holes. It likes areas where fresh grass grows following a fire. It avoids thickets and is independent of water.
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Habits
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It lives in family groups (male, female and her young), nursing groups (one or more females and their young) and temporary male groups, while solitary males are not uncommon. The Warthog is diurnal and sleeps at night in old antbear holes that it enters backwards. Such holes also serve as a shelter against predators and bad weather. Home ranges overlap and become larger in dry seasons. It likes to wallow in the mud.
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Food
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It feeds on grass, rhizomes and wild fruit. It drinks water regularly when available.
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Vocalisation
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Growls, snorts and grunts. The male snaps its jaws as an overture to mating.
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Breeding
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1 to 8 young are born from September to December after a gestation period of ± 5 months. The female has 2 pair of groin mammae.
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