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THE STORY OF THE WART-HOG. 
In South-Eastern Africa—where they are known to> the natives by the 
name of Indhlovudawani—wart-hogs are found on the plains in light thorn- 
jungles; and they are abundant in the districts around Mount Kilima-Njaro. 
In those regions they generally occupy the deserted burrow of an aard-vark, 
or other animal. They have a most curious mode of exit when they bolt"— 
a dangerous one if you are not up to it. As they emerge from a hole, they 
turn a somersault on to the back of it, instead of coming straight out like 
an ordinary animal, and as that is just the spot where one would naturally 
WART HOG OF SOUTH EASTERN AFRICA. 
stand, more than one man has had his legs ripped open before he learnt the 
wisdom of experience. On more than one occasion I have seen a male wart- 
hog walk deliberately through a pack of large hounds without taking the 
slightest notice of them, so* long as they refrained from biting. Did, however, 
one bolder than the rest, venture to come to close quarters, the wart-hog with 
a sudden jerk would either lay its assailant crippled on the ground, or send 
it howling away. 
The young are striped, as are the young of the wild boar. 
