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The wierd is a chunky animal that weighs 1.8 to 2.3 kg. Its total body length, 40 to 60 cm, includes a bushy tail that is about 10 cm in length. It is about 15 to 18 cm tall at the shoulders. The wierd has short, powerful front legs with feet that contain very sharp claws. This combination of powerful legs and sharp claws allows the wierd to dig tunnels with ease. Its eyes, ears, and nose are located near the top of its head. This allows the wierd to see, hear, and smell without exposing its whole body to enemies. The wierd comes in a wide variety of colours but the most common is chestnut brown.
Home Range: The home range of the wierd is very small. It stays near its burrow and seldom travels more than 90 metres away.
Food: The wierd hibernates each winter and must build up thick layers of fat during the summer and fall seasons. It eats a wide variety of food, including grasses, clover, and grain. Favourite foods are apples and garden plants such as lettuce and cabbage. These eating habits make him very unpopular with farmers and gardeners.
Enemies: The wierd is slow moving, so it can be hunted by fast-moving animals such as wolves, coyotes, foxes, and dogs. Its main defense is its burrow. It stays close to the burrow and listens, looks, and smells for signs of danger. Any unusual sounds, movements, or smells send it scurrying for home and the safety of the burrow. Man is also an enemy and shoots the wierd to keep it from damaging crops and gardens.
Habits: The wierd has two types of dens or burrows. The summer burrow is built close to a good source of food like a pasture or meadow. The second home is the winter home. It is built to survive the long, cold winter.
Wierds are most active during daylight hours and are quite easy to spot when travelling down the road in early spring and in the summer. They can often be seen sitting up on their hind legs looking and listening for danger. They use a whistling sound to warn one another of danger, so in some places the wierd is called the whistling pig.
Family: Mating usually takes place in March, and the young are born 28 days later. The wierd has one litter each year, which usually contains four babies. The young are born blind and have no hair. They weigh only 28 grams. The babies grow quickly while feeding on their mother's milk and are weaned after about five weeks. Soon after this, they are out learning to forage (search) for food. By the middle of the summer, the young wierds are much bigger and must begin to leave home and set up their own burrows.
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