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Title: Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia
Identifier: brehmslifeofanim1896breh (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Edward, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals; Animal behavior
Publisher: Chicago : Marquis
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548 THE CLOVEN-HOOFED ANIMALS. Physical Charac- The Wart Hog (PJiacockcert/safricanus) teristics of the attains a total length of six feet four Wart Hog. inches, inclusive of the tail, which measures eighteen inches; the height at the shoulders is twenty-eight inches; the appearance of the animal is also characterized by the very elongated, broad snout somewhat furrowed along the center, the erect excrescences and the tusks which are but very slightly, if at all, bent laterally. The hairy cover- ing of the sides and under parts of the body is short and thin, even during the cold season. On the other hand a mane, which begins on the forehead, broadens on the back, and extends to the croup, attains so considerable a length that it falls down to the abdomen along the sides. The range of the Wart Hog extends principally over the eastern parts of central Africa. ish brown, mingled with white, on the sides (and1 there is an oblique whitish stripe on the neck and shoulders, from which it derives its name of Collared Peccary). The inguinal gland secretes a fluid of pungent odor, offensive to human nostrils, but which seem to be a grateful perfume to the animals them- selves, for they frequently rub their muzzles over each other's glands, and seem to derive a considera- ble degree of satisfaction from the act. The White Lipped The second species of the genus, the Peccary De- White-lipped Peccary (Dicotylcs labi- senbed. atus) is perceptibly larger than its relative, from which, also, it differs in color: and it has a large white patch on the lower jaw. Its gen- eral color is grayish brown, rather uniform on the entire body, the light patch on the muzzle standing out in bold relief. â *£
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THE WART HOG. This African animal has many peculiar features, those from which it derives its name being the fleshy warts which disfigure its face. It is a very strong animal and its back is surmounted by long bristles forming a mane. (Phacochcerus africanus.) THE PECCARIES. Among the distinctive characteristics of the Pec- caries (Dicotylcs) are, first, their dentition: the teeth are thirty-eight in number and the tusks do not curve upward, nor do they pierce the upper lip. These animals are further characterized by a compact structure; a short head and short, slender snout, and rather small cars; by the lack of an outer digit on each hind foot, the rudimentary tail, the cutane- ous gland opening near the loins, and the mamma; of the female, which are two in number. Description of The Collared Peccary (Dicotylcs tor- the Collared quatus) is a small Hog measuring not Peccary. more than thirty-eight inches, with a tail less than an inch long, and the height at the shoulders is from fourteen to sixteen inches. The general color is a blackish brown, fading intoyellow- Range and Habits The Peccaries are of common occur- of the Pec- rence in all wooded regions of South caries. America, up to an altitude of about three thousand feet above the sea. (The range of the Collared Peccary extends also northward through Central America, Mexico and Texas, the Red River in Arkansas being the northeastern boundary of its range.) The White-lipped Peccaries roam through the woods in large herds numbering thousands, under the leadership of the strongest males. The Collared Peccaries form into troops only numbering from ten to fifteen, and they daily change their place of abode and arc continually migrating. Rengger affirms that one may follow them for days without seeing them. "In their wanderings," says this nat- uralist, "neither the open country (which ordinarily they seldom frequent) nor water can stop them. If

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