African Pride Safaris Journey Guidebook

Unlike other mammals, suids seem to lack brown adipose hindering their ability to thermoregulate when younger. Domestic pigs, European wild boars, Bornean bearded pigs, warthogs, and red river hogs all have deletions throughout the uncoupling protein 1 gene (Berg et al., 2006). UCP1 is expressed completely in brown fat and situated along the inner membrane of mitochondria the place it catalyzes protein leakage that results in launch of warmth.