WARREES AND THE JAGUAR 
when brought to bay they will fight with courage, and inflict 
severe wounds with the sharp tusks.” ® 
The warree has much the same mode of life, but after the 
breeding season collects into larger herds, sometimes number- 
ing one hundred or more, and they are credited with 
an innate ferocity which leads them to attack any- 
thing they see, and is irresistible. This disposition has per- 
haps been exaggerated in popular stories. ‘If you meet a 
flock of warrees in the bush,” says Salvin," “and you take no 
notice of them, it is probable that they will take no notice of 
you. But if your intentions are hostile ... you must take 
care to place yourself in a safe position before you carry your 
design into execution.” They have a particular enmity to- 
ward the jaguar, and with good reason, for he regards them as 
an especial prey, yet must be cautious in his hunting, since the 
instant he has seized one the others rush to the rescue, and if 
he is not quick in leaping with his catch to some limb or rock 
out of their reach, they are likely to cut him to pieces by force 
of numbers and reckless valor. 
Warree. 
Remains of larger peccaries are found as fossils in the Brazilian 
caverns and other American Pleistocene deposits; and earlier fossil 
forms of the Miocene and Pliocene of both the Old and New Worlds, 
such as Hyotherium, connect the peccaries with the true pigs, proving 
common ancestry. 
The true swine (Suide) are confined to the Old World and 
are distinguished by their long, pointed heads and mobile 
snouts, with forty bunodont teeth, ending in an 
abrupt fleshy disk containing the nostrils and so 
tough that with it they can plow up the forest mold for the roots, 
tubers, agarics, and other goodies of which they are fond. 
Each foot has four toes, but the central two carry the weight, 
the others helping in miry places. The exemplar of the family 
is the wild boar, which, where it has not been exterminated, 
ranges throughout Europe, northern Africa, and Asia Minor; 
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Swine. 
