. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. THE PIG AND HIPPOPOTAMUS 275. ^ - -^'-W' photo bj> Ottomar Anschiitx] \_BirUn WILD BOAR In its iongj bristly hair and patuerful lotver tusksy the Tvi/d boar is a 'very different animal from its domesticated descendants the same standard. Thus the large-bodied, long-eared English breed, with a convex back, and the small-bodied, short-eared Chinese breeds, with a concave back, when bred to the same state of perfection, nearly resemble each other in the form of the head and body. This result, it appears, is partly due to similar causes of change acting on th
. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. THE PIG AND HIPPOPOTAMUS 275. ^ - -^'-W' photo bj> Ottomar Anschiitx] \_BirUn WILD BOAR In its iongj bristly hair and patuerful lotver tusksy the Tvi/d boar is a 'very different animal from its domesticated descendants the same standard. Thus the large-bodied, long-eared English breed, with a convex back, and the small-bodied, short-eared Chinese breeds, with a concave back, when bred to the same state of perfection, nearly resemble each other in the form of the head and body. This result, it appears, is partly due to similar causes of change acting on the several races, and partly to man breeding the pig for one sole purpose — namely, for the greatest amount of flesh and fat; so that selection has always tended towards one and the same end. With most domestic animals the result of selection has been divergence of character; here it has been ; The True Pigs True pigs are found only in the Old World, and even there in very widely different forms. Typical of these quadrupeds is the well-known WILD BoAR, found abundantly in many parts of Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, and Central Asia. In the British Islands the wild boar must once have been extraordinarily plentiful, especially in Ireland, where its tame descendants still so greatly flourish. In the days of the Plantagenets wild swine fed and sheltered in the woodlands close to London. James I. hunted them near Windsor in 1617, and even down to the year 1683 these animals still had their haunts in the rnore secluded parts of England. Although now extinct in these Islands, the wild boar is to be found plentifully at the present day in France, Germany, Austria, Russia, and Spain, Greece, Albania, and other countries of the Mediterranean. In most parts of Europe the wild boar is shot during forest drives, but in the Caucasus and round the Black Sea the hardy peasants lie in wait for these animals by the fruit-trees on autumn nights or waylay them going to the w
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