340 WILD BEASTS OF THE WOULD 



Aard-Varks {Orycteropus). These they prudently enter backwards, so 

 as to get out easily and present the front to an invading foe. When 

 galloping they have a very grotesque appearance, not only on account 

 of their general ugliness, but because of the finishing touch given by 

 the erection of the tail, whose tasselled tip droops forward. When 

 driven to bay they fight fiercely, but are not so savage and dangerous 

 as the true Wild Boars and Bush-Pigs. The pork is very good and 

 tender when the animal is in good condition. 



THE FOREST-HOG 



(Hylockasrus meinerzhageni) 



This Pig, the giant of the family, has only been recently discovered, 

 which is not surprising, as it inhabits the little-known forest region 

 of Equatorial Africa. It is of large size — even the sow, judging from 

 the mounted specimen in the South Kensington Museum, being , as 

 big as an ordinary Wild Boar, and provided with almost equally 

 formidable tusks, so that her mate would be a monster indeed, worthy 

 to personate the Calydonian and Erymanthian Boars of the classical 

 Greek legends. 



In structure this Pig comes between the typical Pigs and the Wart- 

 Hogs ; its coat is black, and very thin, so that the skin appears through 

 it as in most of our tame Pigs. 



