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Construction site pig house, 2020-06-28

This house has been reconstructed entirely and will house pigs, dik-diks and yellow mongoose.

Construction site pig house, 2020-06-28
KevinB, 4 Jul 2020
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    • nczoofan
      What kind of pig will be kept in the house?
      5 Jul 2020
    • KevinB
      @nczoofan I use the name pig house because that is what the building at this site - which was reconstructed entirely and expanded in the ongoing project - was called and what it housed historically.

      The only species that I for now know with certainty will live here are yellow mongoose. A zoo member magazine from early this year suggested that dik-diks and pigs would also move in here in the future, but it did not mention the species of pig.

      Given that the surrounding exhibits are African savanna-themed the logical choice would be warthogs or maybe red river hogs. But at the Laafsekikkers (Dutch zoo forum) there has been speculation about the zoo wanting to keep babirusas again. That species wouldn't really fit in quite so well among the African exhibits, but I would say I would be more exhibit about that species than about the "common" African pig species.
      5 Jul 2020
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