VIDEO: Rhino Sends Warthog Sky High

Who said pigs can’t fly?!

This video captured the moment a rhino got annoyed with a warthog and threw it up in the air!

According to Live Science, warthogs, as one might guess from the name, are members of the Swine family and are related to pigs, boars and hogs. And as the name also suggests, warthogs have patches on their faces that look like warts, but are just thick growths of skin. These patches act as padding for when males fight during mating season.

Common warthogs live in the grasslands and savanna woodlands of Africa. They prefer open areas, and are found on Mount Kilimanjaro at an elevation of 3,000 meters (9,843 feet). Desert warthogs are found in eastern Africa.

Warthogs live in dens made by aardvarks. They don’t fight for the holes, though. Warthogs are generally passive and look for already abandoned dens to make their homes.

Female warthogs, called sows, are social animals and live in groups called sounders, which can contain up to 40 members. Females groom each other and huddle together at night for warmth. Adult males aren’t as social and can be territorial. Often, they live alone.

In general, warthogs forage during daybreak and the twilight hours. If they live in a dangerous area, they forage at night.

Warthogs are often perceived as vicious animals that attack and eat prey. Actually, warthogs are herbivores, which means they eat vegetation. A warthog’s diet includes roots, berries, bark, bulbs, grass and plants. During times of scarcity, warthogs may eat meat, but they don’t hunt. They munch on dead animals, worms or bugs they find as they forage.

In a dry season, these animals can go months without water.

Female warthogs have up to eight young at a time, though they usually only have two or three, after a gestation period of around six months. Baby warthogs are called piglets. Piglets weigh around 1 to 2 lbs. (450 to 900 grams) at birth.

The young live with their mother in her sounder. Piglets are weaned around 4 months old and become mature at 20 months. Females tend to stay with their mother as adults, while males tend to go off on their own. Warthogs live 12 to 18 years.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists warthogs as least concern on their Red List of Threatened Species. They received this listing because they are widespread in their home areas and have a high reproduction rate.

Warthogs can run up to 30 mph (48 km/h). Their speed helps them outrun predators. They zoom right to their dens and enter rear first, with their tusks sticking out of the entrance for added security.

During the rare times a warthog decides to face an attacker instead of hiding in their den, it will slash at the attacker with its tusks and bite with its sharp teeth.

Oxpeckers and other birds ride on warthogs and eat insects off their bodies. Warthogs will also wallow in mud to get rid of insects and to cool down on a hot day. Warthogs don’t have sweat glands to cool themselves.

Warthogs also have padding on their knees. They often kneel to eat lower grasses or to slurp up a bug.