-^ The Wild Boar 



is frequently found in the Kilimanjaro region, and the 

 big old boars afford the hunter good sport as well as 

 fine trophies with tremendous tusks. 



Wild boars are very harmful in Africa, as everywhere 

 else, in the plantations and fields, and are particularly 

 hard to keep off the native plantations at night time. But 

 the wart-hog is enabled, by its powerfully developed tusks, 

 to wander over the unpeopled velt, and to find itself food 

 by grubbing and ferreting. It is fond of fiesh when it can 

 find any. 



Swine are endowed with very fine senses of hearing 

 and smelling, but their sight is very weak. Big old 

 boars have a deceptive resemblance to male lions when 

 taking flight, on account of their mane, especially in the 

 tall grass and with a bad light. More than once my 

 carriers alarmed me with the cry that they had seen a 

 lion taking- flio-ht when it was reallv a boar. 



One peculiarity of the wart-hog is that it frequently 

 stays in the haunts of the ant-bear, especially during 

 a period of great heat. One often finds several at a 

 time in these burrows. 



■ Wounded wart-hoo^s strike hard with their tusks, and 

 great caution is necessary in hunting them. Owing to 

 their uniformly grey colouring they are almost indis- 

 tinguishable from the ground of the velt. Sometimes, 

 even in the midst of thick cover, they burrow right 

 under the ground. 



The wild boar will survive longer than most other 

 members of the East African fauna, in spite of its being 

 hunted. Even in the over-populated Germany of to-day 



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