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The Common Wild Boar som.etimes m.easures as much as one 

 metre twenty-five centimetres from the end of the muzzle to the 

 beginning of the tail. Its whole body is covered with bristles of 

 a blackish-brown colour, stiff, hard, longer on the back and 



round the ears than in its other parts, and which form a sort of 

 mane when the animal is excited. The body is large and thick- 

 set. The ears are rather short, straight, and movable. The 



