| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Artiodactyla
- ---- family: Suidae
- ----- species: Phacochoerus africanus
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| Characteristics: | omnivore; the body is grey and sparsely covered with long bristles; there is a mane of dark hair with lighter tips; the adults have large tusks which curve over the broad snout; the males have larger tusks than the females and have three pairs of warts on the sides of the face; they run with their tail up; |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- MZ
- Mozambique
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0128
- Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- AT0702
- Angolan Mopane woodlands
- AT0709
- Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT1309
- Kalahari xeric savanna
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| References: | Cillié 1997: 92 |
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