Bushpig
Field guide
mammal ·

Bushpig

Potamochoerus larvatus

Overview

Garden Route National Park, Tsavo West National Park and Nyerere National Park are among the four atlas places where the Bushpig is recorded. Records of this mammal concentrate most heavily in Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, Malawi and Tanzania. The atlas holds 1,696 open records of Potamochoerus larvatus from eight countries. These records also include sightings in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park and indicate that the species is widely recorded across its range. Travellers can explore these records to see where this member of the Suidae family has been documented by observers throughout the southern and eastern parts of the continent.

Records
1,696
Countries
8
Atlas places
4
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Bushpig as much as where it lives. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • Kenya
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1660 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Madagascar
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 19 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • South Africa
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 15 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Malawi
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 2 records · updated 40 days ago
    Likely
  • Angola
    25 km zone · low confidence · 0 records · updated 40 days ago
    Uncommon
  • Mozambique
    25 km zone · low confidence · 0 records · updated 40 days ago
    Uncommon
  • Ethiopia
    25 km zone · low confidence · 0 records · updated 40 days ago
    Rare
  • Tanzania
    25 km zone · low confidence · 0 records · updated 40 days ago
    Rare

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Bushpig