#visayan wart pig

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ok hi i love ur blog already :3 i thought up of a couple cute animals that'd be fun to LPS-ify:

> Visayan Warty Pig, especially when they have the small head of spiky hair like here https://www.zoochat.com/community/media/visayan-warty-pig.173150/ . And also the patterning? Amazing.

> Love of my life, Royal Antilope. It's like an already chibi-fied little antilope. They're like 25cm of anxiety and small limbs and head. But maybe the anatomy might not come across well in a big-headed LPS so do as you want, it can be a baby or you can skip it or something, no pressure :)

sorry that ended up very long i hope u don't mind :) have an amazing day!

day 1! (2/21/24)

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The Best News of Last Week

😷 - Mask off, but guard up! Seems like we're out of the tunnel

1. Abandoned dog seen wandering Detroit streets with stuffed toy rescued, now receiving care

An abandoned dog is preparing for a new home after animal rescue groups spent days trying to find her when she was spotted wandering Detroit with a stuffed toy. Nikki's owner recently died, and she was left to wander the streets with her favorite toy. 

As Nikki receives her care, the animal workers are making sure she is ready to head to her foster home. Almost Home is collecting donations to help pay for the treatment and Niki's care. Donate here.

2. New foster care agency matching LGBTQ+ kids with queer carers to become ‘their amazing, wonderful selves’

A new foster care service has been launched to help match LGBTQ+ young people with supportive carers and families in the South East of England. Apex Q, a service from agency Apex Fostering, will help encourage more LGBTQ+ foster carers, provide training and create more placements for queer children.

Apex Fostering, which covers north and east London as well as several southern counties, including Hertfordshire, Essex and Cambridgeshire, launched in 2021 and claims to have already placed more than 60 young people with foster families. 

3. Newquay Zoo celebrates birth of rare 'warty' piglets

A pair of rare piglets has been born at Newquay Zoo in Cornwall. The Visayan warty pigs, named for the three pairs of fleshy "warts" on the boar's face, which protect it while fighting rival pigs, are part of a breeding programme at the zoo.

The species lives in the forests of the Philippines, where there could be as few as 200 animals left.

4. New Alzheimer's drug slows disease by a third

We could be entering the era of Alzheimer's treatments, after the second drug in under a year has been shown to slow the disease. Experts said we were now "on the cusp" of drugs being available, something that had recently seemed "impossible".

The company Eli Lilly has reported its drug - donanemab - slows the pace of Alzheimer's by about a third.

5. Covid global health emergency is over, WHO says

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a "global health emergency". The statement represents a major step towards ending the pandemic and comes three years after it first declared its highest level of alert over the virus.

But Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the virus remained a significant threat.

6. Doctors have performed brain surgery on a fetus in one of the first operations of its kind

The baby’s condition, known as vein of Galen malformation, was first noticed during a routine ultrasound scan at 30 weeks of pregnancy. The seven-week-old is one of the first people to have undergone an experimental brain operation while still in the womb. It might have saved her life.

Before she was born, this little girl developed a dangerous condition that led blood to pool in a 14-millimeter-wide pocket in her brain. The condition could have resulted in brain damage, heart problems, and breathing difficulties after birth. It could have been fatal. The baby girl was born healthy. She didn’t need any treatment for the malformation.

7. Lastly, watch this father stork brings a blanket to warm up mother stork

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The Visayan warty pig (Sus cebifrons) is a critically endangered species of wild pig that lives only in the Philippines. It is named after the Visayan Islands, where it is native, and the three pairs of warts on its face, which may help protect it from the tusks of rival pigs.

One of the most distinctive features of the Visayan warty pig is its crest and mane, which the males grow during the breeding season. The mane can be black, brown, or blonde, and can reach up to 20 cm in length. The crest is a tuft of hair that stands upright on the head, giving the pig a mohawk-like appearance.

The Visayan warty pig is a social animal that lives in groups of three to six individuals, usually consisting of a male, several females, and their young. They are omnivorous, feeding on fruits, roots, tubers, and sometimes crops. They are active at night or dusk, resting in hollows during the day.

The Visayan warty pig is facing a serious threat of extinction due to habitat loss, hunting, and hybridization with domestic pigs. It is estimated that only about 300 of them remain in captivity, while their population in the wild is unknown.

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Image credit: ZSSD

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"Curious, Amazed, Living in the Moment" (2021), watercolor 9x12 inches

This is the latest addition to my Idyllic Scenes Collection of paintings. It'll be on sale at my booth at Pusong Filipinx ("Heart of Filipinx"): The Market on August 8, 2021.

In this piece, animals that are found in and endemic to the Philippines are playing and marveling at a popular outdoor game called "Chinese Garter".

Most of them are endangered due to loss of habitat and poaching.

I love animals. I believe that art is a great way to give the spotlight on critically endangered species that may not be widely well-known.

So I'll introduce them through my posts (plus a portion of sales will be donated to conservation efforts).

Starting right meow!

Edit (2021/08/12): Binturong (bearcat) photos courtesy of ABConservation.org. Thank you so much!

The Tamaraw /'TA-marau/ (I know how to pronounce it, but not how to write the pronunciation. lmk). It's found in the island of Mindoro, in the Visayas region. The smaller cousin of the carabao (also called Mindoro Dwarf Buffalo, lol), but lives mostly in the wild.

Their numbers are dwindling due to logging, illegal hunting, and diseases from livestock that were introduced from resettlers.

Organizations such as the Tamaraw Conservation Program has Support-A-Ranger to help the brave people who wholeheartedly offer their service to protect the tamaraws.

The Bearcat ('Binturong') - It's much smaller than it looks (more like the size of a wolverine). I've also read that it smells like popcorn (!) and hisses like a cat.

They thrive in canopies of primary/undisturbed forests, where they eat fruits, insects, eggs, and shoots.

The sad thing is that bearcats are hunted for the illegal pet trade, sold as delicacies and some weirdass medicine in other countries.

The people of Palawan (where the bearcats are found) have designated 100,000 acres of pristine forest called the Cleopatra's Needle Critical Habitat.

With the help of the communities of the Batak tribe (a hunter-gatherer community that relies on the forest for their livelihood) and conservation groups such as ABConservation.org, they are helping protect the bearcats.

Visayan Warty Pig. Found in multiple islands in the Visayas region, and are smaller than domestic pigs. They're given this name due to the visible warts in their skin. (Not quite visible here). It's said that it helps protect them from the tusks of rival pigs.

They are considered extinct in 95% of their natural habitat. The clearing of forests to be used for agriculture is one factor. Also, they're omnivores and have the propensity to feed on crops, so they're hunted by farmers as pests.

More animals will be introduced in the next post! Sources:

https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/save-binturong-wait-whats-binturong

https://www.speciesonthebrink.org/species/tamaraw/

https://www.experiencenegros.com/saving-the-visayan-warty-pig/

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VISAYAN WARTY PIG Sus cebifrons ©Laura Quick This critically endangered pig sprouts a natty mohawk in the summer to woo the ladies. I just learned this and will keep an eye out for the new 'do on the make at the Zoo. Zoos around the world are working on developing strong offspring that can hopefully be returned to join those tiny populations still existing in the wild, as their native terrain has stabilized and can support at population again. Visayan warty pigs tend to live in groups of four to six. The diet of the pig mainly consists of roots, tubers, and fruits that can be found in the forest. They may also eat cultivated crops (this is a problem). The Visayan warty pig receives its name from the three pairs of fleshy "warts" present on the visage of the boar. Biologists speculate that the reason for the warts is to assist as a natural defense against the tusks of rival pigs during a fight. The boars also grow stiff spiky hair. #viyasanwartypig #wildpig #suscebifrons #©lauraquick #asia #artiodactyla #suidae #losangeleszooandbotanicalgardens #losangeleszoo #lazoo #glaza #philippines #southeastasia https://www.instagram.com/p/B86tcDnHLiw/?igshid=1mcdkli2mg0oe

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Visayan Warty Pig

The Visayan Warty Pig has two subspecies that were recognized as such until 2000. Unfortunately, we have lost one of the subspecies, the Cebu Wart Pig and the other, the Negros Warty Pig is critically endangered.

Its biggest threat is habitat loss causing by commercial logging and farming. It is extinct in 98% of its native range. 

Other studies indicated that there might be other subspecies of this Pig inhabiting the island of Panay in the Philippines. 

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tesla’s resurreccion kinda looks like it’s based on warty pigs, or, visayan warty pigs. they’ve got thin snouts and luxurious manes, plus it makes the whole “wart” translation for verruga make sense??

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VISAYAN WARTY PIG

Sus cebifrons

The Visayan warty pig is a small, forest-dwelling pig, little known, and only recently recognized as a distinct species. The males or boars are much larger than the females or sows, and, unique amongst wild pigs, grow crests and manes during the breeding season that are as long as 23 cm. They are named after the islands where they live, and because of the three pairs of “warts” on the face of male pigs, which may help protect their face when fighting.

Found in the past throughout the Visayan Islands, which is the central archipelago in the Philippines, these pigs are now extinct in at least 98% of their former range, the few surviving populations concentrated in remaining habitat on the Negros and Panay islands of Negros. This species requires dense forested areas. In the past they occurred in primary and secondary forests at sea-level up to elevations of nearly a mile high, and also in grasslands.

There is little information about Visayan warty pigs in the wild. They live in social groups which are called sounders. An adult male with females and their young comprise a typical group. Family groups typically have three to six members, though they may have up to a dozen. Males may live on their own or in bachelor groups. This species lives a highly social life, usually foraging in family groups, communicating constantly with squeaks, grunts and chirrups. They are not territorial and have overlapping home ranges, sharing feeding, resting watering and wallowing areas. Their activity is nocturnal or crepuscular; they rest in hollows during the day.

Little is known about the mating system in Visayans as there have been no detailed studies of their biology. It was only recently established as a separate species. After about 118 days of gestation, females exhibit nesting behavior. Their litters are usually two to four in number, the piglets being born in the dry season - January to March. A female can bear young every eight to twelve months. They carefully protect their piglets, which start eating solids at a week old and are weaned at about six months old. Juveniles gradually lose their stripes and after a year have adult coloration. Females are sexually mature when two or three years old, however, in captivity females can conceive as early as twelve months. Males are sexually mature at two years old.