Animal Scene

WARTS ALL And ALL

A look at a mysterious and endangered species: the Visayan Warty Pig

- By PAUL CATIANG

The Visayan warty pig (Sus cebifrons) goes by several local names: the Cebu bearded pig, baboy ilahas, baboy do mor, manggalisa­k banban, biggal, and bakatin, according to the Ultimate Ungulate website. It also has two subspecies depending on the island it lives on: the Cebu warty pig (Sus cebifrons cebifrons) and the Negros warty pig (Sus cebifrons negrinus), which refers to the species found on Negros and Panay, reported Belle Piccio in a 2016 article for Choose Philippine­s.

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