NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



WART HOG OR VLACKTE-VARK 



{PhacochcBTus oethiopicus) 



Kaunaba of Hottentots ; Kolobe of Bechuana ; Indaigazana of 

 Swazis and Zulus (sometimes Inhlovudawana of the latter, 

 which means " little substitute for the Elephant ") ; Ikulubi 

 of Basuto ; Njiri of natives of Lower Zambesi (Chilala and 

 Chibisa) ; Ngolobwi of Barotse and Ngami ; Ngron of M'Kua ; 

 Shaukoli of Chila ; Gado and Darunga of Hausa ; Halluf of 

 Sudani ; Karkari of Somali. 



The Wart Hog inhabits Africa from Abyssinia and 

 Somaliland in the north to the Orange River in 

 the south. In the early days of the colonisation 

 of South Africa it was met with on the eastern 

 side of the Cape Province, but it is now extinct 

 south of the Orange River. In South Africa it is 

 still found in the wilder parts of Zululand, Portu- 

 guese Territory, Transvaal, Rhodesia, Damaraland 

 and Bechuanaland. 



The Wart Hog favours lightly-forested, open 

 country, and thick thorn-brakes ; but shuns the 

 densely-forested tracts, and is never found far from 

 water. 



They usually associate in family parties of two 

 or three sows and their young, or a boar and sow 

 with her last litter. When the young are about 

 half-grown, the boar withdraws his protection, and 

 leads a solitary existence until the next breeding 

 time. The young pigs run with the mother until 

 the next season's litter are about to be born, when 



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