672 THE DESCENT OF MAN 



logical Gardens recently broke into the cage of tlie wart- 

 hog. They fought all night long, and were found in the 

 morning much exhausted, but not seriously wounded. It 

 is a significant fact, as showing the -purpose of the above- 

 described projections and excrescences, that these were 

 covered with blood, and were scored and abraded in an 

 extraordinary manner. 



Although the males of so many members of the pig 

 family are provided with weapons, .and, as we have just 

 seen, with means of defence, these weapons seem to have 

 been acquired within a rather late geological period. Dr. 

 Forsyth Major specifies" several miocene species, in none 

 of which do the tusks appear to have been largely developed 

 m the males ; and Prof. Eutimeyer was formerly struck with 

 this same fact. 



The mane of the lion forms a good defence against the 

 attacks of rival lions, the one danger to which he is liable; 

 for. the males, as Sir A. Smith informs me, engage in terri- 

 ble battles, and a young lion dares not approach an old one. 

 In 1857 a tiger at Bromwich broke into the cage of a lion, 

 and a fearful scene ensued; "the lion's mane saved his neck 

 and head from being much' injured, but the tiger at last suc- 

 ceeded in ripping up his belly, and in a few minutes he was 

 dead." " The broad ruff round the throat and chin of the 

 Canadian lynx {Felis canadensis) is much longer in the male 

 than in the female; but whether it serves as a defence I do 

 not know. Male seals are well known to fight desperately 

 together, and the males of certain kinds {^Otaria juhataf* 

 have great manes, while the females have small ones or 

 none. The male baboon of the Cape of Grood Hope {Gyno- 

 cephalus 'porcarius) has a much longer mane and larger ca- 



« "Atti della Soc. Italiana di So. Nat.," IStS, yoL xv. fasc. iv. 



* "The Times," Nov. 10, 1857. In regard to the Canada lynx, see Audu- 

 bon and Bachman, "Quadrupeds of N. America," 1846, p. 39. 



« Dr. Murie, on Otaria, "Proc. Zoolog. Soc.," 1869, p. 109. Mr. J. A. 

 Allen, in the paper above quoted (p. 75), doubts whether the hair, which is 

 longer on the neck in the male than in the female, deserves to be called a mane. 



