Giant Warthog

The **Giant Warthog** is a wildlife item and an irascible threat animal.

## Behavior

The  Giant Warthog is the first Irascible Threat you encounter in the game. They can be found in the  Jungle,  Great Lake,  Woodland, and  Savanna regions.

* In-game model of Giant Warthog

## Combat

The Giant Warthog is a medium small animal that can appear alone but can be found in a small group. Don't let their size fool you! Warthogs tend to forage around a small area and if you enter their territory they get very defensive. Care should be taken if you decide to engage in combat with one of these animals as you may be swarmed by a pack of them from all sides. The Warthog uses their body size and medium speed to rush you for blunt force trauma to inflict   Injury. Being a medium small animal, it easier to  intimidate a single animal but a pack is much harder. It is recommended to do so holding weapons or with a group of hominids.

If you do decide to attack, use the best weapons you can acquire. It is recommended to use Sharpened Sticks first, Sticks next, and as a last resort rocks or hard tools. The more damage you can do from a distance, the better. Being a medium small animal, it may take several strikes to kill this animal.

## Carcass

The  Giant Warthog Carcass provides  Mammal Meat and Hard Bone when it is butchered. The carcass can be butchered two times. To butcher a carcass more than once, all the items dropped from the previous butchering must be picked up.

## Interactions with Other Animals

When different animals get in close proximity to each other, they can attack and kill each other. Animals can fight each other on their own or you can cause them to move nearer to each other to initiate combat. Some of these methods are intimidation to scare them towards another animal, have them chase you and you run past another animal, or perform a dodge and the animal runs towards another animal.

When animals fight each other, a cut-scene will play showing one animal attacking and killing the other. There are a large number of Evolution Feats that deal specifically with trying to cause animals to fight and kill each other.

The Giant Warthog while being a medium small animal is a formidable foe. In packs, warthogs can be quite dangerous. The warthog doesn't seek out combat due to its size but it can hold its own against some animals it interacts with. If it can't defeat an enemy, it will tend to run away.

### Can Kill

The Giant Warthog doesn't go after other animals. It may fend off an attack from another animal and kill that animal but doesn't seek out combat.

### Can Be Killed By

The Giant Warthog can be killed by a number of animals.

* Made the  African Rock Python kill the Giant Warthog - Astute Dominator of the Rock Python
* Made the  Black-Backed Jackal kill the Giant Warthog - Astute Dominator of the Jackal
* Made the  Hyena kill the Giant Warthog - Astute Dominator of the Hyena
* Made a  Machairodus kill the Giant Warthog - Astute Dominator of the Machairodus
* Made the  Thorbjarnarson's Crocodile kill the Giant Warthog - Astute Dominator of the Crocodile

## Trivia

* The giant warthog or Metridiochoerus is an extinct genus in the pig family indigenous to the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Africa.
* *Metridiochoerus* was a large animal, 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length, resembling a giant warthog. It had two large pairs of tusks which were pointed sideways and curved upwards. Based on the complicated, knobbly pattern of the creature's molars, *Metridiochoerus* is considered to have been an omnivore.
* Warthogs live in the grasslands and savanna woodlands of Africa. They prefer open areas, and are found on Mount Kilimanjaro at an elevation of 3,000 meters (9,843 feet), according to ADW. Desert warthogs are found in eastern Africa — in parts of Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Warthogs live in dens made by aardvarks. They don't fight for the holes, though. Warthogs are generally passive and look for already abandoned dens to make their homes.
* Warthogs are often perceived as vicious animals that attack and eat prey. Actually, warthogs are omnivores, which means they eat vegetation and a bit of small animals, according to ADW. A warthog's diet includes roots, berries, bark, bulbs, grass, plants and insects. During times of scarcity, warthogs may also eat meat, but they don't hunt. They munch on dead animals, worms or bugs they find as they forage.
* Baby warthogs are called piglets. Piglets weigh around 1 to 2 lbs. (450 to 900 grams) at birth
* Warthogs can run up to 30 mph (48 km/h). Their speed helps them outrun predators. They zoom right to their dens and enter rear first, with their tusks sticking out of the entrance for added security. During the rare times a warthog decides to face an attacker instead of hiding in their den, it will slash at the attacker with its tusks and bite with its sharp teeth. Oxpeckers and other birds ride on warthogs and eat insects off their bodies. Warthogs will also wallow in mud to get rid of insects...