The Visayan bearded pig is only found in the wild on two islands in the world.
Three piglets of the highly endangered Visayan partridge have been born at Whipsnade Zoo in England. The zoo informed about it on their website on Wednesday.
The species is also known as cebunsika.
The piglets’ mother, Tessa, carried them for three months, three weeks and three days, according to the zoo. Two of them are females and one is male. The piglets were born in June.
According to the International Species Association, the Visayan bearded pig is only found on two islands of the Visayas group of islands in the Philippines. Visayan bearded pig is classified an extremely endangered species.
The fur of the piglets is orange and has brown stripes that help blend in with the environment. As they mature, their fur turns gray. Karjun recognizes its coat from the Iroquois-like upper part.
Kind of are threatening habitat destruction and shrinking, hunting, disease and parasites, and interbreeding with domestic pigs.
According to the Whipsnade Zoo, Visayan ferns are important to the ecosystem of their habitat, as they dig the ground with their hooves and thus aerate the soil. They also transport and plant seeds in the soil with their feces.
Whipsnade Zoo is part of the Zoological Society of London, an English zoological society.
There has been news about the topic also the BBC.