Ep.2. Pigs with beards, warts, and tusks

Monsoon

English - February 25, 2021 18:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB
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Frizzy beard above the nose; thick warts on the face; chitty-chatty and yet ready to butt heads for sex. Scientists Matthew Linkie and Sheherazade from Wildlife Conservation Society (Indonesia) share stories about the many species of wild pigs that roam the forests of Southeast Asia and their deadly new threat, the African swine fever. Show recorded on 16 Feb 2021. Detailed notes and goodies at https://scienceilluminates.com/monsoon/

Resources mentioned in show

Luskin et al. 2020 – the paper that assessed the threat of African swine fever for wild pigs; co-authored by Matthew Linkie and Sheherazde.Suiform Soundings – the newsletter of the IUCN’s Wild Pig Specialist Group.Ancient cave paintings of wild pigs in Sulawesi (Jan 2021)