CHAPTER X 



THE PIGS : PORCUPINE : ANT-BEAR : HONEY 

 BADGER : OTTERS : HARES : ROCK RABBIT : 

 GIANT RAT : SCALY ANT-EATER 



The two wild pigs which make their home on the 

 banks of the River Zambezi are the same in all 

 respects as those found throughout South and 

 East Central Africa, namely, the large, dis- 

 proportionately-headed, warthog, and the com- 

 paratively gaily-marked, guinea-pig-like bushpig 

 of the somewhat higher elevations. 



Warthogs are almost invariably found in 

 families, and have an extremely happy, easy- 

 going faculty which enables them to make them- 

 selves quite at home in practically any part of 

 the country, high or low, forest or plain. They 

 are most entertaining animals to watch, and, if 

 proper caution be exercised, are usually far too 

 much engrossed in the preoccupations of the 

 moment to mark the presence of a hostile in- 

 fluence. In the cultivated areas, especially where 

 roots are grown and ground-nuts planted, wart- 

 hogs are a terrible pest. They will travel daily 

 from their sleeping-places and cover many miles 

 to reach some well-known garden, where they 

 plough up the ground and create amazing havoc. 

 They love especially loose, sandy, friable soil, 



