It is a food source for animals such as the Indian rhinoceros and the pygmy hog.

The pygmy hog is a unique genus: 19th century taxonomists got it right first time round.

In tropical India, the tall grasses hide some of the largest creatures and also the smallest, such as the pygmy hog.

Pygmy hogs were exhibited in the zoos of London and Berlin in the 19th century.

Assam was part of the historical range of the critically endangered Pygmy Hog.

The pygmy hog, the world's smallest pig species, survives in two wildlife sanctuaries in India.

However, human encroachment has largely destroyed the natural habitat of the pygmy hog by development, agriculture, domestic grazing and deliberate fires.

The park has a large resident population of wild boar, but the critically endangered pygmy hog has been reported from the park.

Pygmy hog Sus salvanius.

The pygmy hog, formerly Sus salvanius is now placed in the monotypic genus Porcula.

ARKive - images and movies of the pygmy hog (Sus salvanius)

Even though Wild Boar are present in Kaziranga, the Pygmy Hog is no longer found here.

The pig most in danger of extinction is the smallest one - the 60cm-long pygmy hog Sus salvanius, of northern India.

Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme-an update.

In India the critically endangered Pygmy Hog is successfully breeding in a centre designed and built by the Trust.

The pygmy hog weighs no more than 10kg, is about half a metre long, is grey-brown and bristly and has no facial warts.

Left : Northern India's pygmy hog, which is about the weight of the average shopping bag, is a whole species being held hostage by armed repels.

The endemic mammals of the valley are the pygmy hog and the hispid hare, both of which inhabit the grasslands of the riverbanks.

They include giraffe and camel, deer and antelope, and 13 species of pig - including warthog, pygmy hog, bearded pig, bushpig.

The success of captive breeding dramatically increased after the Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme, PHCP, was established in 1995.

Pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is an endangered species of small wild pig, previously spread across India, Nepal, and Bhutan but now only found in Assam.

New genetic analysis of a large section of mitochondrial DNA supports the original classification of the pygmy hog as a unique genus (Funk et al., 2007).

He took considerable interest in the wild animals and wrote a book on the tiger and procured living specimens of the Pygmy Hogs for the Zoological Society of London.

The park is known for its rare and endangered endemic wildlife such as the Assam Roofed Turtle, Hispid Hare, Golden Langur and Pygmy Hog.

The grassland biomes : pygmy hog, Indian rhinoceros (re-introduced in 2007 after extinction due to heavy poaching during the Bodo uprising), bengal florican, wild Asian buffalo, etc.

The resurrection of the original genus status and the species name Porcula salvania has been adopted by GenBank.

Pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is an endangered species of small wild pig, previously spread across India, Nepal, and Bhutan but now only found in Assam.

It may also contain the rare pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) and hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus) known to inhabit the adjacent Khaling Reserve in Assam, with which Khaling Wildlife Sanctuary forms a trans-border reserve.