Banded pig

Banded Pig Temporal range: Early Pleistocene - Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Suidae
Genus:	Sus
Species:	S. scrofa
Subspecies:	S. s. vittatus
Trinomial name
Sus scrofa vittatus Boie, 1828
Synonyms
Sus scrofa andersoni Sus scrofa jubatulus Sus scrofa milleri Sus scrofa pallidiloris Sus scrofa peninsularis Sus scrofa rhionis Sus scrofa typicus

The Banded Pig (Sus scrofa vittatus), also known by various other names including Malay Pig and Island Pig, is a subspecies of the wild boar found in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and many Indonesian islands, including Sumatra, Java, and the Lesser Sundas as far east as Komodo. There are also feral populations in the region, and it has been domesticated. The males have tusks, but the females do not. They are omnivores that will eat herbs, roots, tubers, rhizomes, grasses, bird eggs, small rats and mice, lizards, frogs, birds (such as juvenile ducks and partridges), annelids, beetles, termites, ants, and maggots.

References

• http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/S/Sus_scrofa_vittatus/

External links

• Pbase SUIDAE - sundaic Banded Pig (Sus scrofa vittatus) - UJUNG KULON NATIONAL PARK - JAVA BARAT INDONESIA