VISAYAN WARTY PIG

The Visayan Warty Pig(Sus Cebifrons) or typically known as "baboy ramo" is found in Central Visayas in Panay, Negros, Cebu and Aklan. It is an omnivorous that eats either other animals or agricultural crops. The famale boar has dark stiff animal hairs while the male has light brown or silvery ones. Hence, it is covered with hairs that have prickly texture making it appears like a spiky mohawk. The basis behind its name warty pig is that it has small facial warts exclusively grow in a male boar. This pig rolls around in a mud but hobbies of the one inhabiting in the wild are somehow unidentified. It is a well-known target of most hunters that's why its number is going down which is near to extinction. The IUCN listed it with a corresponding remark of critically endangered specie.The call for the conservation and preservation of this unique creature has reached many agencies that's why various programs are now putting plans into action to rescue the life of the visayan warty pig which is very much affected by the malpractices of human beings.