CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 11. 1 J ACHYDERM ATA. 



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THE CAFE WART-HOG. 



after the same fashion; eat and drink in the same swinish manner; are fond of the same descrip- 

 tion of food — roots and fruits, with fish and serpents when they are met with ; they elevate their 

 long bristles like the hog when terrified or angry ; breathe with the same violent effort ; and ex- 

 press their feelings with the same peculiar grunt. ^Tien taken young they readily become habit- 

 uated to the society of man, take as much delight as our pigs in being scratched and rubbed, and 

 are speedily reduced to a state of complete subservience. They are not, however, likely ever to 

 become so useful in the farm-yard, for — not to speak of their fetid gland, which is very offensive, 



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THE COLLARED PECCARY. 



and is said to communicate a very disagreeable savor to their flesh if not removed immediately 

 after death — the flesh itself is decidedly inferior to pork both in flavor and fatness, and, they arc 

 far less prolific than the hog, the female producing but once a year and two at a birth. They 

 are more or less common in Mexico and South America, inhabiting the thickest and most exten- 

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