Archive for the 'Swine' Category
In some ways, the babirusa is the most remarkable of all the wild pigs. It is rather large, weighing about two hundred pounds, and it is almost hairless. But the oddest thing about it is the shape of the tusks in old boars.
In the Philippines, where the babirusa lives, the natives say that its tusks [...]
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For hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years men have hunted the wild boar in Europe and Asia, and while it is hard to think of a pig as a game animal, the wild boar is so fierce and so courageous that all the skill and daring of the huntsman are need in its pursuit. [...]
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A little smaller than its relative, the European wild boar, the Indian species weighs between two hundred and three hundred pounds. It has three-inch tusks which are kept razor sharp by rubbing against each other. The animal averages thirty to forty inches in shoulder height.
“Pig-sticking” – the hunting of Indian wild boar from horseback, with [...]
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