Wild Pig, Peccary and Hippo TAG AKA Picco TAG TAG Officers TAG Chair Martin Ramirez, Woodland Park Zoo Vice Chair Jeff Holland Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens Secretary Dawn Petefish Peoria Zoo Advisors Vet Advisor Cora Singleton Reproductive Advisors Annie Newell-Fugate Endocrine Advisor for Hippos Catharine Wheaton TAG Steering Committee RoxAnna Breitigan, The Living Desert Joe Forys, Audubon Zoo Randy Reiches, San Diego Safari Park John Davis, Riverbanks Zoo & Garden Penny Kalk, Bronx Zoo Lisa Smith, Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum of Natural History Program Highlights Pygmy Hippo River Hippo Christie Eddie, Henry Doorly Zoo John Davis, Riverbanks Zoo Help recruit new institutions and • Help with solution for encourage them to support Pygmy extra males Hippo in situ projects. • New institutions or institutions interested in housing additional animals should contact the SSP Coordinator Program Highlights Babirusa Visayan Warty Pig Jeff Holland, Los Angeles Zoo Craig Miller, Jacksonville Zoo • GSMP candidate More support from holders for in- situ conservation projects. • SSP is exporting 3.2 to EAZA. Program Highlights Collared Peccary Chacoan Peccary Jim Haigwood, Dennis Meritt Los Angeles Zoo • Financial support of in-situ work in Paraguay at Proyecto Tagua • Ship out your collared peccaries and replace them • Encourage institutions to ship out with Chacoan peccaries collared peccaries and replace them with Chacoan peccaries • Do not breed your collared peccaries. • If possible, incorporate your collared peccaries in a mixed exhibit to free up space for Chacoan peccaries. Program Highlights Red River Hog Warthog Jeff Holland, Los Angeles Zoo Lisa Smith, Great Plains Zoo • Inbreeding – lack of unrelated Red River Hogs are taking up adult animals/ new genetics valuable space for the more required – must come from known endangered pig and peccary lineages to be helpful species (Babirusa, Visayan Warty • Challenges with some pairings/introductions Pigs and Chacoan Peccaries) • Several institutions wanting to bring in unknown genetic stock from the private sector Since last year RCP final draft is in review PVA’s for TAG species are nearly done Goals for next 12 months Communicate phase out of collared peccaries Development of babirusa GSMP Encourage pig holders to participate in TAG endorsed research projects Retrospective characterization of reproductive tract lesions in relation to parity, age, and contraception in captive Suidae and Tayassuidae The long-term goal of this research Annie Newell-Fugate, D.V.M., program is to develop a set of M.Sc., Ph.D. comprehensive, lifetime reproductive Assistant Professor health management recommendations for captive AZA Suidae Department of Veterinary and Tayassuidae species. Physiology and Pharmacology College of Veterinary Medicine The short-term goal of this and Biomedical Sciences research project is to determine Texas A&M University the common reproductive tract pathologies found in males and females in the AZA Suidae and Tayassuidae population. Goutam Narayan received the Harry Messel Award for Conservation Leadership for his outstanding conservation work for the critically endangered Pygmy hog. The Pygmy Hog Conservation Project A Mixed exhibit of Visayan Warty Pigs (Sus cebifrons negrinos) and Spotted Deer (Rusa alfredi) at Colchester Zoo, UK And then there is just the bizarre Wild Pig, Peccary and Hippo TAG Meeting Agenda March 21, 2016 1:00- 2:45 -Welcome and Introductions -PVA updates -RCP update -Research update -Babirusa GSMP and Joint TAG meeting update -Phasing out collared peccaries - Discussion; What can the TAG do for you?.