no 



SOME HOOFED ANIMALS 



growth. The masked hog of Africa is a hideous creature, 

 while the wart hog appears to have challenged nature to 

 produce the most 

 disagreeable of all 

 animals. 



Among the small 

 members of the fam- 

 ily are the peccaries 

 (Fig. 94), several 

 species being found 

 in South America 

 and Central America 

 and even in Texas. 



Fig, 93. — Babirusa. 



They travel in bands or herds, and few animals exhibit so 



much actual ferocity as 

 these diminutive crea- 

 tures. They will follow 

 hunters, and have used 

 their teeth so effectively 

 that people have been 

 fatally injured by them. 

 In killing snakes the 

 peccary will leap into the 



air and bring all of its sharp hoofs down upon the reptile, 



cutting it in pieces. 



Fig. 94. — The Peccary. 



