WARTHOGS

Africa is home to the most awesome creature, the warthog. Warthogs live in most places in Africa. These creatures are mammals. Warthogs are herbivores, eating roots, bulbs and grasses. One of the animal behaviors they demonstrate is when they are digging for roots and bulbs. What they do is take their shovel like noses and dig through the dirt to find food. They also use their hooves to help dig.

Warthogs live in groups called sounders. Males are always the leader of the sounders. But warthogs are not always so friendly with each other. During the mating season when males battle to impress a female (also called courtship behavior) the "warts" act like cushions on the warthog's face. Warthogs have two sets of tusks.The bottom tusks are very sharp, unlike the top ones. The bottom ones are the ones they use to fight off/stab predators if they harm the warthog or the warthog's young. By Violet