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The world's rarest and smallest wild pig species is “extremely susceptible to extinction” from ASF due to its small populations and limited range

The shy, 10-inch-tall pygmy hog, "rediscovered" in 1971, is steadily increasing in number due to captive breeding in its native India.

Wed 3 Mar 2021 01.15 EST The greyish brown pygmy hog ( Porcula salvania), with its sparse hair and a streamlined body that is about the size of a cat’s, is the smallest wild pig in the world, and also one of its rarest, appearing on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list as endangered. Named after the sal grasslands where they were first found, they once thrived in the lush plains of the sub Himalayas from Nepal to Uttar Pradesh. But today, there are thought to b...