VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

WILD PIG AND GAUR

Wild pig (Sus scrofa)

• Elongated head with abruptly ending snout that is mobile in nature and snout ends in a flat disc with nostrils. Upper canines curve upwards and outwards
• Tushes are well developed in males. Both the upper and lower tushes curve outwards and project from the mouth. White hairs are present on body.
• New born are striped. 

Gaur (Bos gaurus)

• Huge head, massive body and well set apart-horns.
• Muscular ridge upon the its shoulders is present that slopes down to the middle of the neck where it ends in an abrupt dip.
• White stockings in feet are present.
• No white patch behind thighs unlike tsaine.
• Shy animal visits the salt licks, often.