Before you get worried: everything is fine at Bawean and with the work of BEKI! However, when the team wanted to start with a side-project of measuring the height of wild warty pig they got boycotted by some other individuals. But first things first... In the last couple of weeks the team has been lucky enough to get some close-up encounters with our warty pigs while walking transects through the forest. One thing that immediately stood out though, was that despite still being very impressive, the pigs were certainly not as big as one might deduce from the videos and stories alone. So approximately how big are they then? After a few videos of rope-pulling monkeys we got some warty pig videos as well! As shown on the previous photo, only the first two ropes are visible, these are the ones at 25 and 50 cm. This gives a crude estimation of the size of these animals, with females reaching heights of about 50 cm. Males get considerably bigger with approximately 70cm, whereas the juveniles on our camera only measure about 35-40cm.
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By the BEKI team currently on Bawean (Mark, Simen, Shafia)
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