Title Ecology, conservation and management of wild pigs and peccaries / edited by Mario Melletti, AfBIG (African Buffalo Initiative Group), IUCN/SSC/ASG, Erik Meijaard, Borneo Futures, Center of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, Australian National University, Wild Pig Specialist Group (IUCN/SSC/WPSG)

Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I -- Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication -- 1 Evolutionary Relationships and Taxonomy of Suidae and Tayassuidae -- Introduction to Suoidea -- A Brief Evolutionary History of Suoidea -- Suidae -- Diversification and Dispersal -- Phylogenetic Relationships between Extant Suidae -- Phylogenetic Relationships between Extant Sub-Saharan African Suinae -- Phylogenetic Relationships between Extant Eurasian Suinae -- Tayassuidae -- Diversification and Dispersal of New World Tayassuidae -- Phylogenetic Relationships between Extant Tayassuidae -- Taxonomy of Suidae and Tayassuidae -- Taxonomic Background: What Is a Species and a Genus? -- Suidae -- Babyrousa Perry, 1811 -- Phacochoerus F. Cuvier, 1817 -- Hylochoerus Thomas, 1904 -- Potamochoerus Gray, 1852 -- Porcula Hodgson, 1847 -- Sus Linnaeus, 1758 -- Tayassuidae -- Tayassu Fischer von Waldheim, 1814 -- Pecari Reichenbach, 1835 -- Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus, 1758) -- Pecari angulatus (Cope, 1889) -- Pecari crassus (Merriam, 1901) -- Catagonus Ameghino, 1904 -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Postcranial Skeletal Morphology in Living and Fossil African Suidae -- Modern Suoids -- Hindlimb -- Femur -- Tibia -- Fibula -- Astragalus -- Calcaneum -- Third Metatarsal -- Fourth Metatarsal -- Modern Suoidea -- Forelimb -- Humerus -- Radius -- Ulna -- Third Metacarpal -- Fourth Metacarpal -- Fossil Pig Skeletons -- Nyanzachoerus devauxi -- Nyanzachoerus kanamensis -- Nyanzachoerus indet. -- Notochoerus euilus -- Kolpochoerus (limnetes) heseloni -- Kolpochoerus majus -- Metridiochoerus modestus -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3 Diet and Ecology of Extant and Fossil Wild Pigs -- Introduction -- Climatic and Environmental Background Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Framework -- Methodology -- Ecomorphology -- Stable Carbon Isotopes -- Results and Discussion -- Towards a New Scenario of Adaptations to Herbivory in African Suids -- Perspectives -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 A History of Pig Domestication: New Ways of Exploring a Complex Process -- Domestication and Phenotypic Change in Modern Pigs -- Determining Phenotypic Change and Domestication from the Archaeological Record -- Statistical Approaches in Archaeology -- Archaeological Applications of GMM in Identifying Wild and Domestic Pigs -- Other Evidence for Human-mediated Dispersal of Domestic Pigs -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Space, Time and Pig -- Introduction -- Pigs-as-pork? -- Discovering Pigs-as-pigs: My Cheju Island Epiphany -- Site and Situation -- Cheju Island Privy-pig Trait-complex Origins -- More Empirical Observations -- Occam's Razor Misapplied? -- Speaking for the Pigs: Five Freedoms -- Space, Time and Pig -- Pig-Human Relations: A Cosmological Casualty of Modernization in East Asia -- Modernity in the West, Land-use Change, and Loss of Living Space for Pigs-as-pork -- Relational, Absolute, and Relative Spaces, and Changing Pig-Human Relations -- Relational Space -- Absolute Space -- Relative Space -- Quo Vadis Sus scrofa? -- Summary -- Conclusion: If Pigs Could Fly . . . What Then? -- References -- Part II -- Species Accounts -- 6 Sulawesi Babirusa Babyrousa celebensis (Deninger, 1909) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Territorial Range -- Activity Patterns -- Daily Activity -- Feeding Ecology -- Food Supply and Digestion -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Social Behaviour -- Agonistic Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Threats to Survival -- Conservation Measures -- Status in Captivity Acknowledgements -- References -- 7 Moluccan Babirusa Babyrousa babyrussa (Linnaeus, 1758) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Conservation Measures -- Status in Captivity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8 Togian Babirusa Babyrousa togeanensis (Sody, 1949) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- References -- 9 Common Warthog Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin, 1788) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Historic Geographic Distribution -- Present Geographic Distribution -- Abundance and Density -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Predators -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 10 Desert Warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas, 1766) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Historic Geographic Distribution -- Present Geographic Distribution -- Abundance and Density -- Descriptive Notes -- Warthogs Phacochoerus spp. -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Predators -- Status in the Wild -- Kenya -- Ethiopia -- Somalia -- Status in Captivity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11 Forest Hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni (Thomas 1904) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Population Dynamics and Mortality Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 12 Bushpig Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Historical Distribution -- Present Distribution -- Density -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Omnivorous Diet -- Nutritional Ecology and Life-history Tactics -- Reproduction and Growth -- Reproduction -- Growth -- Behaviour -- Social and Socio-spatial Organization -- Rearing Behaviour -- Communication -- Agonistic Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- References -- 13 Red River Hog Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus, 1758) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Abundance -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 14 Visayan Warty Pig Sus cebifrons (Heude, 1888) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Disease -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 15 Philippine Warty Pig Sus philippensis (Nehring, 1886) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Conservation Measures -- Status in Captivity -- References 16 Mindoro Warty Pig Sus oliveri (Groves, 1997) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- References -- 17 Palawan Bearded Pig Sus ahoenobarbus (Huet, 1888) -- Taxonomy -- Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- References -- 18 Bearded Pig Sus barbatus (Müller, 1838) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Food Types -- Foraging Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 19 Sulawesi Warty Pig Sus celebensis (Muller & Schlegel, 1843) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Former and Present Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- References -- 20 Javan Warty Pig Sus verrucosus (Boie, 1832) and Bawean Warty Pig Sus blouchi (Groves and Grubb, 2011) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Descriptive Notes -- Habitat -- Movements and Home Range -- Activity Patterns -- Feeding Ecology -- Reproduction and Growth -- Behaviour -- Parasites and Diseases -- Status in the Wild -- Status in Captivity -- References -- 21 Eurasian Wild Boar Sus scrofa (Linnaeus, 1758) -- Taxonomy -- Subspecies and Distribution -- Pre-historical and Historical Introduction Summary Wild pigs inhabit vast areas in Europe, Southern Asia and Africa, and have been introduced in North and South America, while feral pigs are widespread in Australia and New Zealand. Many wild pig species are threatened with extinction, but Eurasian wild boar populations, however, are increasing in many regions. Covering all wild pig and peccary species, the Suidae and Tayassuidae families, this comprehensive review presents new information about the evolution, taxonomy and domestication of wild pigs and peccaries alongside novel case studies on conservation activities and management. One hundred leading experts from twenty five countries synthesise understanding of this group of species; discussing current research, and gaps in the knowledge of researchers, conservation biologists, zoologists, wildlife managers and students. This beautifully illustrated reference includes the long history of interactions between wild pigs and humans, the benefits some species have brought us and their role and impact on natural ecosystems Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Suidae. Peccaries. Wildlife management. Peccaries Suidae Wildlife management Form Electronic book Author Melletti, Mario, editor. Meijaard, E., editor. ISBN 9781316941232 131694123X

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