. The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;. Mammals. THE SWINE-WART HOGS. 547 tion. The natives are said to kill it with spears and sometimes to organize hunts in which the animal is driven by beaters, under which circumstances it usually seeks safety in flight. T'Ue sow is said to give birth to one or two young, in February. They are pretty little creatures, from seven to eight inches in length, and are loved and defended by their mother with great devotion. If the young are taken early, they gradually acquire a certain degree of tameness; they become used to Man, occasionally follo
. The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;. Mammals. THE SWINE-WART HOGS. 547 tion. The natives are said to kill it with spears and sometimes to organize hunts in which the animal is driven by beaters, under which circumstances it usually seeks safety in flight. T'Ue sow is said to give birth to one or two young, in February. They are pretty little creatures, from seven to eight inches in length, and are loved and defended by their mother with great devotion. If the young are taken early, they gradually acquire a certain degree of tameness; they become used to Man, occasionally follow their keepers about and express their gratitude by shaking their ears and tails. One sometimes finds a living Babirusa in the possession of a native chief, for the people of the islands which it inhabits regard it in the light of a queer creature and keep it in confinement as a curi- osity. This, however, happens quite seldom, and a high price is asked for a Hog of this kind. the London Zoological Garden, and some of them throve quite well, and propagated in captivity, under the careful treatment accorded to them. THE WART HOGS. Besides the Humped Hogs {Potamochoerus), Africa harbors genuine monsters of the same family, the Wart Hogs {Phacochcerus). They are the clumsiest and ugliest of all known Swine, distinguished above all by the ungainliness of their heads and the pecul- iarity of their dentition. The body is of cylindrical shape, the neck short, the head bulky, with a low, broad forehead, the nasal area being perceptibly broadened all over and disproportionately so in the front part of the upper lip. On the sides the head is disfigured by three wart-like growths; one of these IS over an inch high, pointed and mobile and is situ- ated below the eye; another, a smaller one, stands. THE BABIBUSA. A peculiar species of the Swine family found in some of the islands of the Malay Archipelago. The tusics of the lower jaw are long and sharp,' but the upper pair grow very long an
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