The teeth are low-crowned relative to tylopod and ruminant artiodactyls. A wart hog and piglet, East Africa. Wart hogs use their tusks in defence, and will have to defens their young from attacks by the many canivores found on the African savannah. Lateral toe reduction is less pronounced than in the peccaries. A warthog feeding.
Pigs are generally omnivorous, and are commonly found in forested habitats.
Pigs have been known to eat leaves, seeds, roots, fungus, fallen fruit, grass, insects, birds' eggs, lizards and small mammals. Also, pigs are commonly active at night. The wart hog is one exception, it grazes on the African savannah and feeds on roots. It is only active during the day and will spend the night in dens, usually the abandoned burrows of other animals. The tusks are used for defence and in conflict between males.