Has a thick skin. Is prone to overheating. How to capture the bushpig Free-living bushpigs cannot normally be approached sufficiently closely for darting purposes. Being highly suspicious by nature, it is also unlikely that a hide could be used to facilitate darting of bushpigs. Even if darting were possible from a hide, a darted bushpig would run rapidly into thick cover, and recovery of the immobilized animal would be unlikely.
Immobilization thus requires prior physical capture.
This section refers exclusively to the use of drugs for the restraint of bushpigs that are in a capture pen or accommodation facility. Since bushpigs are dangerous animals, a suitable dartgun should be used to administer drugs. Hand injection and pole syringes are not recommended. The barb on the needle should be removed or shortened considerably. If several members of a sounder are in a pen, barbed or collared needles will ensure that the darts remain in the animals.