The giant forest hog of the central African highlands weighs up to 275kg and can be more than two metres long.

While hunting, the Bambuti have been known to specifically target the giant forest hog.

The giant forest hog can weigh as much as 650 pounds and stand three feet high at the shoulder.

The giant forest hog is mainly a herbivore, but also scavenges.

The giant forest hog has extensive hairs on its body, though these tend to become less pronounced as the animal ages.

It roared and squealed with the voice of the buffalo and the giant forest hog.

Above : The biggest pig of all is Africa's giant forest hog.

Further, there are unconfirmed reports of giant forest hogs eating Bambuti infants from their cribs in the night.

Giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni.

There are multitudes of elephant, buffalo, giant forest hog as well as the endangered Black Rhino.

Some rare species, such as the giant forest hog, suni, mountain bongo, and maned rat are found in the forest.

It mainly feeds on rodents, but also includes birds, small monkeys, duikers, giant forest hogs and small antelope in its diet.

In exceptionally large specimens, the species can rival the size of the Giant forest hog, the largest extant species of wild suid.

Giant forest hogs occur in west and central Africa, where they are largely restricted to the Guinean and Congolian forests.

This lore can be tied to Bambuti mythology, where the giant forest hog is thought to be a physical manifestation of Negoogunogumbar.

The park contains some animals which are rare in Gabon including the Bongo and the Giant Forest Hog.

Other even-toed ungulates include giraffes, hippopotamuses, warthogs, giant forest hogs, red river hogs and bushpigs.

Creatures such as the panda, antelope and giant forest hog are territorial when breeding and cannot be maintained in crowded enclosures in captivity.

The pygmy hippopotamus, the giant forest hog, the water chevortain and a number of insectivores, rodents and bats, tree frogs, bird species inhabit the area.

South Sudan's forest reserves also provided habitat for bongo, giant forest hogs, red river hogs, forest elephants, chimpanzees, and forest monkeys.

Flint manages to get a buffalo after fighting giant forest hogs and snakes, but later finds Tally and Heath up trees with a buffalo herd underneath them.

Among others, the forests of Congo are also home to the bongo, a beautiful striped antelope; the less glamourous giant forest hog and a truly stunning array of birdlife.

Within the forest bloc, swampy forest clearings provide abundant digestible forage for herbivores such as gorillas, buffalo, sitatunga and Giant Forest Hog.

The park is home to many endangered species including the rare bongo, giant forest hog, packs of the now very rare wild dogs, and endemic mole-rat and mole shrew.

As all suids of Sub-Saharan Africa, the giant forest hog has not been domesticated, but it is easily tamed and has been considered to have potential for domestication.

Giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni.

All three species of pig occur in the Park (red river hog, warthog, and giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni), and there are hippo Hippopotamus amphibius at several sites along the Djerem river (Fig. 6).

This is what Mason sent to his breeders in Sardinia to prepare the theater of Dr Lecter's death: The giant forest pig, Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, six teats and thirty-eight chromosomes, a resourceful feeder, an opportunistic omnivore, like man.

Meinertzhagen "first achieved a sliver of international fame when he discovered, killed, stuffed, and shipped back to London the first known to Europeans Giant African Forest Hog, soon dubbed Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, and attributed to Richard Meinertzhagen."

The Giant Forest Hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni - the only member of its genus) is native to wooded habitats in Africa and generally is considered the largest wild member of the Suidae (pig family; a few subspecies of the wild boar can reach an even larger size).

Mammals reported by to have been present in the park in during Anderson's time in Southern Sudan were giant eland, waterbuck, kob, hartebeest, korrigum, buffalo, giraffe, oribi, white rhino, reedbuck, lion, colobus monkey, various galagos including the Senegal bushbaby, and giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni).