Sus scrofa
Home: The open woodlands of Vietnam was the original home of the Potbellied Pig
Food: Plants, roots and insects
Size: Approximately 3 feet long and 15 inches
tall
70 to 150
pounds
Potbellied Pig Trivia:
- The first Potbellied Pig was imported to the United
States in 1986.
- Potbellied Pigs do not reach their full growth size
until they are 5 years of age.
- Potbellied Pigs wallow in the mud to protect themselves
from sunburn.
- Potbellied Pigs have a straight tail, unlike other
pigs.
- Because the Potbellied Pig was a food source to large
predator animals in Vietnam, picking up the pig can cause it to become very
frightened.
- Potbellied Pigs are very intelligent.
- You can feed the Potbellied Pigs in the Petting Farm.
Our Meet the Animals section includes research from the following websites:
The Austin Zoo's website: www.austinzoo.org.
Spanish translations courtesy of the Austin Zoo.
Rolling Hills Refuge Wildlife Conservation Center http://www.rhrwildlife.com/animbot.htm
The Birmingham Zoo http://www.birminghamzoo.com/
The WWW Virtual Library: Zoos http://zoonet.home.mindspring.com/www_virtual_lib/zoos.html
Photographs in Our Meet the Animals Section from PrintMaster Platinum v8.0 software.
Research on farm animals came primarily from http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/