Which zoo has the best / most diverse suid & peccary collection ?

[birdsandbats]

Saint Louis has Red River Hog, Domestic Pig, Visayan Warty Pig, and Northern Sulawesi Babirusa.

 

[GaryA]

I think it is sad that Marwell has lost so many of these species (from the forum I gather that the suid collection is not the only one at Marwell which has declined due to lack of interest).

Sadly according to their website they now longer have even a single peccary or pig species left which is a shame.

By the way tried to find a picture of the mysterious Marwell wild boar in the gallery...

Sadly I have no photos of the boar or the pig sty he lived in. It was a very typical farm style of sty but on steroids as it was very high sided with horizontal viewing bars between massive concrete blocks.

I never saw him awake or even moving. He was usually fast asleep in his mud wallow.

At the time, the Peccaries lived in the other sty. This was from the early 1970s into the 1980s.

I do have some pics of me with the Vietnamese pot belly, plus the Babirusa and Peccary.

 

[RatioTile]

On a half-relevant note I’ve been seeing the pig genus Sus being written a lot online now because it’s short for “suspicious,” made popular by the online game Among Us.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

On a half-relevant note I’ve been seeing the pig genus Sus being written a lot online now because it’s short for “suspicious,” made popular by the online game Among Us.

Seems coincidental but interesting nonetheless.

I'm not into video games so never knew this but having just checked out what this game is about I do think it is a bit of a mirror on our troubled, atomized and paranoid times, dont you think ?

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

I don't think he's necessarily aggressive really, I know they do a lot of training with him, it's more that he's large, powerful, has big tusks, and is capable of seriously injuring someone very very quickly. Temperamental, maybe? Like the hyenas are very sweet, but their jaws can inflict so much damage with one grab, even playing.

Reminds me a little of giant anteaters which are much the same but with the claws.

I thought of Saint Louis when I saw this thread but forgot to mention it.

The yards are part of the Red Rocks hoofstock complex, which was built during the Great Depression as a government works project. It's still very functional today and holds a large and diverse collection of ungulates. Most of the yards are grassy, but the ones holding wild pigs have dirt and mulch on them instead... one can only guess why





It may in the sense that it potentially limits holding space for them in mixed-species yards. Their digging and rooting can create potholes and other depressions that could cause another ungulate to trip and injure itself.

Great that it is still a functional enclosure all these years later !

Yes , I definitely think the digging / rooting thing can put zoos off holding suids which is a shame because some species absolutely need to be held more ex-situ and particular the Asiatic species.

 

[Ituri]

At its peak San Diego had warthog, red river hog, bush pig, wild boar, visayan warty pig, bearded pig, babirusa and chacoan peccary

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

At its peak San Diego had warthog, red river hog, bush pig, wild boar, visayan warty pig, bearded pig, babirusa and chacoan peccary

It must have been a very impressive collection of suids and peccaries indeed, what is the collection like today ?

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Visayan warty pig enclosure at Cotswold Wildlife park, UK:

White lipped peccary enclosure at Cotswold Wildlife park, UK:

White lipped peccary enclosure at Spaycific zoo, France (shared with coati:

Chacoan peccary enclosure at Prague zoo, Czech Republic:

Collared peccary at Prague zoo, Czech Republic:

Peccary enclosure at Greater Vancouver zoo, Canada:

Collared peccary enclosure at Melbourne zoo:

Chacoan peccary at Sedgewick county zoo:

Photo credits to @Maguari, @Zambar, @zooboy28 , @gulogulogulo, @PAT, @lintworm, @snowleopard .

 

[Antoine]

@Onychorhynchus coronatus Just a correction : Spaycific Zoo hold collared peccary and not white lipped

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

@Onychorhynchus coronatus Just a correction : Spaycific Zoo hold collared peccary and not white lipped

Oh right, thanks for letting me know , my bad.

Will try to get it changed with the mods.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Sedgewick county zoo in the USA look to have a great red river hog enclosure judging by the pictures in the gallery:

Photo credits to @KCZooFan

 

[15399]

Sedgewick county zoo in the USA look to have a great red river hog enclosure judging by the pictures in the gallery:

Photo credits to @KCZooFan

They actually have a river! So many of my red river hog exhibits I've seen don't include any area to swim or soak.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Mixed species enclosures / exhibits featuring suids / peccaries at zoos:

Warthog and bat eared fox enclosure at San Diego zoo, USA:

Warthog and banded mongoose at Chester zoo, UK:

Red river hog, congo dwarf buffalo and white pelican enclosure at Bioparc Valencia, Spain:

Red river hog and mandrill enclosure at the Bronx zoo, USA :

Indian rhinoceros and Visayan warty pig enclosure at Planckendael zoo, Belgium:

Photo credits to @snowleopard , @Javan Rhino , @geomorph, @KevinB , @JigerofLemuria , @Maguari , @ThylacineAlive , @savethelephant , @BeardsleyZooFan and @fkalltheway.

 

[red river hog]

Mixed species enclosures / exhibits featuring suids / peccaries at zoos:

Warthog and bat eared fox enclosure at San Diego zoo, USA:

Warthog and banded mongoose at Chester zoo, UK:

Red river hog, congo dwarf buffalo and white pelican enclosure at Bioparc Valencia, Spain:

Red river hog and mandrill enclosure at the Bronx zoo, USA :

Red river hog and giant forest hog at San Diego zoo, USA:

Photo credits to @snowleopard , @Javan Rhino , @geomorph, @JigerofLemuria , @Maguari , @ThylacineAlive , @savethelephant , @BeardsleyZooFan and @fkalltheway.

Giant Forest Hog turned out to be just a melanistic Red River Hog.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Giant Forest Hog turned out to be just a melanistic Red River Hog.

Thanks for that @red river hog , have removed it from post now.

Do you know any other mixed species suid enclosures in zoos around the world ?

 

[red river hog]

Thanks for that @red river hog , have removed it from post now.

Do you know any other mixed species suid enclosures in zoos around the world ?

The only other I can think of is the National Zoo in the US. They’re mixed with Sitatungas.

Another that doesn’t exist yet is Brandywine Zoo, which plans to mix Red River Hogs with Bat-eared Foxes, similar to one of the ones you shared. They are planning on incorporating a lot of interesting mixed enclosures since they don’t have much land.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

The only other I can think of is the National Zoo in the US. They’re mixed with Sitatungas.

Another that doesn’t exist yet is Brandywine Zoo, which plans to mix Red River Hogs with Bat-eared Foxes, similar to one of the ones you shared. They are planning on incorporating a lot of interesting mixed enclosures since they don’t have much land.

Thats interesting, I'll see if I can find any shots of the enclosure you mention at the National zoo.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Thanks to @red river hog for this one.

Mixed sitaunga and red river hog enclosure at Smithsonian National Zoo:

Photo credits to @Andrew_NZP.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Giant Forest Hog turned out to be just a melanistic Red River Hog.

Thanks for that @red river hog , have removed it from post now.

Close but no cigar - I believe the eventual identification was melanistic Bushpig.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Close but no cigar - I believe the eventual identification was melanistic Bushpig.

Damn it , lol , deleted the picture too