The Greater Mousedeer (scientific name: Tragulus napu) is called Greater Oriental Chevrotain, Balabac Chevrotain, Greater Indo-Malayan Chevrotain, Greater Mousedeer, Larger Malay Chevrotain, Larger Mousedeer, Napu in English, Chevrotain napu, Grand tragul malais in French, and Napoh in Malay. There...
Lesser Mousedeer (scientific name: Tragulus kanchil) English Lesser Oriental Chevrotain, Lesser Indo-Malayan Chevrotain, Lesser Malay Chevrotain, Lesser Mousedeer, Mouse Deer, French Chevrotain kanchil, Petit tragul malais, Indonesian Kanchil, has 30 subspecies, slightly larger than a hare. The mous...
Javan Mousedeer (scientific name: Tragulus javanicus) English Javan Chevrotain, Java Mousedeer, Javan Mousedeer, Kanchil, Lesser Mouse Deer, French Chevrotain de Java, Petit tragul malais, no subspecies.In the early classification, the Javan mouse deer was classified as a large mouse deer (now calle...
Spotted Mouse Deer (scientific name: Moschiola meminna) English White-spotted Chevrotain, Chevrotain, Indian Mouse Deer, Indian Spotted Chevrotain, White-spotted Mousedeer, French Tragule d'Inde, Spanish Meminna, no subspecies.In 2005, Groves and Meijaard revised the name "Moschiola meminna...
The yellow-striped mouse deer (scientific name: Moschiola kathygre) has no subspecies. It mainly eats fruits that fall from trees, and other foods include young leaves, shrubs, and young branches.The golden brown body and yellow stripes and markings of the yellow-striped chevrotain visually distingu...
Indian Chevrotain (scientific name: Moschiola indica) is also known as Indian Chevrotain, Indian Mouse Deer, Indian Mousedeer, Indian Spotted Chevrotain. It has no subspecies and is the largest member of the genus Moschiola.The Indian spotted chevrotain is a shy and secretive species. Like other for...
Water Chevrotain [shuǐ xī lù] (scientific name: Hyemoschus aquaticus) English: Water Chevrotain, French: Chevrotain Aquatique, Spanish: Antilope Amizclero Enano de Agua, German: Hirschferkel, no subspecies, is the largest member of the family Hyemoschus.Water deer females are sedentary, occupying...
White-lipped Peccary (scientific name: Tayassu pecari) has 5 subspecies.White-lipped Peccary is active both during the day and at night, but is mainly nocturnal. They are a nomadic species, always looking for food and water. Living in groups, their estimated home range is between 60-200 square kilom...
The Chacoan Peccary (Catagonus wagneri) has no subspecies. When it was first discovered, there were only some fossils of the Chacoan Peccary and it was thought to be extinct. It was not until 1975 that they were found alive in the Grand Chaco Plain. The indigenous people are very familiar with them....
Collared Peccary (scientific name: Pecari tajacu) has 14 subspecies. Peccary, pronounced tuān, means wild boar. Peccary, as the name suggests, is a wild boar in the West. In biological taxonomy, both peccaries and pigs belong to the order Artiodactyla, but they belong to different families.The coll...
Pecari maximus (scientific name: Pecari maximus) is also known as Pecari Gigante in English. It has no subspecies.The giant peccary is a large forest-dwelling wild boar first discovered in 2000 by Dutch naturalist Marc van Roosmalen in the Rio Aripuan Basin in Brazil. In 2003, he and Lothar Frenz, a...
Javan wild boar (scientific name: Sus verrucosus) foreign name Javan pig, Sanglier pustule, there are 2 subspecies.Javan wild boars are mostly nocturnal, and damage to rice fields and crops occurs almost exclusively at night. These animals are not very social. Females and their young may be found to...
Eurasian wild boar (scientific name: Sus scrofa) English Wild Boar, Eurasian Wild Pig, Ryukyu Islands Wild Pig, French Sanglier, Sanglier d'Eurasie, Spanish Jabalí, German Schwarzwild, Wildschwein, Mongolian Zerleg Gakhai, is a medium-sized mammal with 20 subspecies.Eurasian wild boar females a...
Philippine Warty Pig (scientific name: Sus philippensis) has two subspecies.Philippine Warty Pig is more active at night, but is also active during the day. It appears in pairs during the breeding season, usually forming small groups of 7-12. It is a generally timid and cautious animal that can defe...
Mindoro wild boar (scientific name: Sus oliveri) is also known as Oliver's Warty Pig. There is no subspecies.There are few direct records of observations of Mindoro wild boars in the wild, and the habitat preferences of the species remain mostly unclear. There are probably remnant forests and sc...
Sulawesi Warty Pig (scientific name: Sus celebensis) has three subspecies.The Sulawesi wild boar has a home range of 500-1000 hectares for females and 1000-2000 hectares for males. As mammals, they communicate using some combination of vision, hearing, touch, and emitted chemical scents. They are so...
Visayan warty pig (scientific name: Sus cebifrons) is a species endemic to the Visayas Islands in the Philippines.Reports on the activity patterns of Visayan wild pigs in undisturbed areas are rare, as any such activity is deep in remote forest areas with rugged terrain, making even casual observati...
Indochinese wild boar (scientific name: Sus bucculentus) is also known as Indo-chinese Warty Pig, Heude's Pig, Vietnam Warty Pig, and has no subspecies.The Indochinese wild boar was described in two skulls collected in southern Vietnam in 1892, allegedly from near Ho Chi Minh City in the Dong Na...
Porcula salvania (Pygmy Hog in English, Sanglier nain, Sanglier pygmée in French, Jabalí Enano, Jabalí Pigmeo in Spanish, Nal Gahori, Takuri Borah in Assamese, Sano Banel in Nepali) is the only animal in the Suidae family and the Porcula genus. It is the smallest wild boar.Jizhu is a non-territor...
Borneo Bearded Pig (scientific name: Sus barbatus) is also known as Bearded Pig and Western Bearded Pig in foreign languages. It has two subspecies.The Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa) shares the Bornean bearded pig's range in Malaya and Sumatra, but the Eurasian wild boar is smaller and lacks th...