WART-HOG 



PHACOCHCERUS AFRICANUS 

 SWAHILI : NGURRUWE. MASAI : UBIDIR 



f lH IS is a strange and weird animal, 



and fierce-looking withal. He is, of 



course, a pig, black and covered thinly 



with a few black hairs. Their skulls 



are rather flat, and they have three pairs of warts 



about an inch and a half long on their faces : 



hence their name. They are peculiar in having 



their upper tushes long, instead of the lower ones, 



as in the Indian pig. 



They attain a much bigger size in Somaliland 

 than in East Africa, added to which their tushes 

 are longer still, and they grow a huge bristly 

 mane in the former country, which sometimes 

 nearly touches the ground. Their upper tushes 

 curl over the nose at right angles to the line of 

 their head, and the lower ones are quite thin 

 and almost straight. 



Their two main characteristics are amusing. 

 First, when alarmed and trotting off, the tail is 

 stuck straight on end into the air. Secondly, if 

 one has the chance of riding one, and he has the 



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