{"id":9418,"date":"2019-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/bushpig\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:54:57","slug":"cespuglio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-national-park-animals-guide\/bushpig\/","title":{"rendered":"Porco selvatico"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>Bushpig [Potamochoerus larvatus]\n<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>Bushpigs vary in size, from very small to man sized. They have a reddish-brown coat with white\/silver stripes that can cover its face. It has a bushy mane with longer hair than the rest of the coat that has an often silvery colour. The Bush Pig also has large pointy ears and a thin whip like tail.<\/p>\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>Not much is known about the breeding habits of bushpigs other than the fact that it gives birth to an average of 6 young between November and January.<\/p>\n<h2>Behaviour<\/h2>\n<p>Bushpigs are solitary animals that scavenge for food in various places, from camp sites to rubbish dumps. They try to avoid confrontation but will attack if threatened.<\/p>\n<h2>Where can they be seen?<\/h2>\n<p>Bushpigs can be found in a variety of places from farmlands to forests to savannahs. They are famous for menacing farmlands and destroying crops. possible but rare to spot them in the Kruger Park During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/\">Kruger Safari<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Interesting Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Bushpigs make use of the same routes towards feeding grounds which make a clearly marked path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Bushpig [Potamochoerus larvatus] Appearance Bushpigs vary in size, from very small to man sized. They have a reddish-brown coat with white\/silver stripes that can cover its face. It has a bushy mane with longer hair than the rest of the coat that has an often silvery colour. The Bush Pig also has large pointy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-animal-tour-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}