Pygmy hogs
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Manon de Visser1, Langqing Liu2, Mirte Bosse2
1Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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|April 27, 2021
Abstract:
Manon de Visser and colleagues introduce the rarest and smallest wild pig species, the pygmy hog (Porcula salvania).
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