224 THE WARTHOG— THE BUSHPIG 



which in other circumstances she would not have 

 faced for a moment. The young commence to 

 follow the parents almost immediately after birth, 

 and whilst still quite small develop an activity 

 which renders their capture a matter of no small 

 difficulty. They grow extraordinarily tame, and 

 whilst young their ungainly antics and gambols are 

 most amusing. 



Although possessed of but little fat, a leg of 

 warthog is a dish by no means to be despised, the 

 piglings furnishing one for which an epicure 

 would or should go far. 



Bushpigs inhabit, for the most part, the higher 

 levels, although by no means uncommon on the 

 lower plains. I have used in connection with this 

 animal the comparison of the guinea-pig, and if 

 perhaps not quite an exact one, there is still to 

 my mind something of a resemblance. If, there- 

 fore, my reader should be prepared to give his 

 imagination a small modicum of rein, he might 

 picture to himself an immense, reddish-brown 

 guinea-pig marked with rather long yellow, grey 

 and white hair, and provided with quite a heavy 

 white collar. The head is by no means dis- 

 proportionate as in the case of the warthog, and 

 the tusks are insignificant. 



Unlike the warthog, bushpigs feed chiefly by 

 night, and although they may occasionally be 

 seen grubbing for grass roots in the early morning, 

 they never abandon themselves in mud-holes and 

 sand-pits to the gaze of their enemies in the frank, 

 careless manner of the former. During the day 

 they retreat into thick bush, and do not leave 



