Bearded Pig

Bearded Pig
	; At the Philadelphia Zoo ; At the San Diego Zoo
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia;
Phylum:	Chordata;
Class:	Mammalia;
Order:	Artiodactyla;
Family:	Suidae;
Genus:	Sus;
Species:	S. barbatus;
Binomial name
	Sus barbatus; Müller, 1838
Subspecies
	Sus barbatus oi; Sus barbatus barbatus;

The Bearded Pig (Sus barbatus), also known as the Bornean Bearded Pig, is a species of pig. It can be recognized by its prominent beard. It also sometimes has tassels on its tail. It is primarily found in Southeast Asia—Sumatra, Borneo, the eastern Philippines—where it inhabits rainforests and mangrove forests. The Bearded Pig lives in a family. It can reproduce from the age of 18 months, and can be cross-bred with other species in the family Suidae. There are about 25 members of this species in U.S zoos. The San Diego Zoo was the first zoo in the Western Hemisphere to breed them. The London Zoo is the only U.K zoo to currently house the species.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Subspecies

There are two subspecies of this pig:^[1]

Sus barbatus by Nicole Knibbe in University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
Pigs, Peccaries and Hippos Status Survey and Action Plan (1993) Chapter 5.5 by Julian O. Caldecott, Raleigh A. Blouch and Alastair A. Macdonald.

^ ^a ^b Grubb, Peter (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds). ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd edition ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200038.
^ Kawanishi, K., Gumal, M. & Oliver, W. (2008). Sus barbatus. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2008. Retrieved on 5 April 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.

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