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Pigmy Hog (Porcula salvania)

adult male, photo taken February 2014 at the breeding centre at Nameri National Park, where there are currently twelve pigmy hogs (I saw two pairs and a baby).

The main breeding centre is at Basistha near Guwahati where (according to the information at Nameri) there are between 60 and 70 pigmy hogs and from which 10 to 15 animals are released every year. At Nameri there is also a large pre-release pen in which the Basistha animals get used to living semi-wild before release at Manas National Park. Some have been released at Nameri as well, despite it probably never having been part of pigmy hog range and the park not having the right sort of habitat; it does not appear any of those released at Nameri survived.
Just how easy would it be to export Pigmy Hogs from India to Europe (or anywhere else, for that matter?). It would surely be advisable to disperse some animals elsewhere.

I think it's now very difficult to export any native Indian wildlife at all.

Some very nice shots of fascinating creatures, Chli. Thanks. I look forward to what might be coming next. :)
 
Just how easy would it be to export Pigmy Hogs from India to Europe (or anywhere else, for that matter?). It would surely be advisable to disperse some animals elsewhere.

Didn't Jersey have them at one time, or were they only working with them in the wild?
 
Just how easy would it be to export Pigmy Hogs from India to Europe (or anywhere else, for that matter?). It would surely be advisable to disperse some animals elsewhere.
in one of the Jersey Zoo threads, it was mentioned that they are working with the pigmy hog people in Assam and *may* be getting some at Jersey.....

Everyone over there cross your fingers and toes because they are adorable!! (The pigmy hogs, that is, not necessarily English fingers and toes).
 
Didn't Jersey have them at one time, or were they only working with them in the wild?
the plan was for them to go to Jersey but they ended up staying at Zurich where they had been quarantined. Bad luck meant the hogs at Zurich did not establish a captive population, but they seem quite easy to breed and with the numbers captive in Assam hopefully if they do allow some to go to Jersey this time then it will be in a proper sex ratio to establish them.
 
Bad luck meant the hogs at Zurich did not establish a captive population, but they seem quite easy to breed .

I believe they bred at Zurich but lost the breeding female and the offspring were all male, or if there was a female young it got pregnant too early and so died also. Otherwise Jersey might have had their group.
 
Tim May and Bele, welcome to this exclusive club of Zoochatters,, with so far four members...any more out there?:)

Wow !

I have located the poor photo I have from Zurich Zoo , you can just about make out 3 hogs . I remember them moving in a group , very quickly , around the well-planted enclosure .

In the same album - red colobus at Banham , white tiger cub and okapi , 1978 , at Hollywood Towers ( now Wild Place ) , Jubilee the Asian elephant as a very small calf Chester 1977 , the old male golden lion tamarin at Regent's Park in 1970's ( then the only one in UK ) , lion-tailed macaques at Thorney ( including Stumpy who went to Bristol ) , wolverine at Norfolk Wildlife Park .
 

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