232 DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND PLANTS 
the development of the larger English breeds, such as the York- 
shire, the Tamworth, and the Berkshire, the latter so largely 
represented in that truly American breed, the Poland China. 
The Indian wild boar is closely related and very similar to 
the European. He runs a little larger, standing often as high 
as forty inches at the shoulders. Like his European cousin he 
is a dangerous enemy and does not hesitate, when pursued, to 
attack whatever appears, — men, horses, elephants, or even tigers. 
Boar hunting, as it is called in Europe, and “' pig sticking,” as 
the term goes in India, are therefore counted specially fine 
sports for the hunter. 
Both these species inhabit the forests of the lower lands and 
both cover extensive stretches of country. Their food is varied, 
ranging from grass roots and worms, which they dig from the 
ground with their serviceable rooters, to small animals, especially 
snakes, against which they seem to hold a special grudge, and 
which they are peculiarly skillful in killing by jumping and 
lighting with all four feet on the tail, ripping up the creature 
into “shoe strings” with their enormous tusks, which are the 
prolonged incisor teeth. 
Besides the Indian wild boar southeastern Asia affords a 
large number of closely related but smaller races. There are no 
less than a half dozen of these well-marked species in the Malay 
Peninsula alone, besides the curious little pigmy hog (Sas sal- 
vanius) of the Himalayan foothills, standing only ten or eleven 
inches at the shoulders. Still again there is the masked pig of 
Japan, with its heavy folds of skin about the face and its immense 
drooping ears. 
_ From some or several of these Asiatic species domesticated 
races were doubtless developed long ago. Certain it is that 
domesticated pigs were known in China before they were in 
Europe, and that much of the blood of modern domestic swine 
came originally from this stock, and would be traceable, if we 
knew the history, to some of these native races or their extinct 
relatives, of which there are many, ranging from a giant form 
