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European Wild Boar Exhibit (Sus Scrofa), Formerly Red River Hog (Potamochoerus porcus)
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European Wild Boar Exhibit (Sus Scrofa), Formerly Red River Hog (Potamochoerus porcus)

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These boars arrived a single week ago to replace the group of Red River Hogs, I'm not sure why the Red river hogs left as they had many offspring in this exhibit, My best assumption is that they went to Pretoria Zoo who have kept a large group of Red river Hogs for almost 2 decades now.
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Interesting change. Do you know where the boars are coming from? Is it from a SAF private holding or from an European Zoo/Animal Park? The later would surprise my because in reverse, importing swine species from Africa to Europe is (almost) impossible afaik.
 
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@zoomaniac These boars came from East London Zoo, In the East Cape Province of South Africa, The species is also a problem animal at a cattle ranch of a friend of mine. They're not all too rare in South Africa.
 

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