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Any member of the pig family. The river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) lives in Africa, south of the Sahara. Reddish or black, up to 1.3 m/4.2 ft long plus tail, and 90 cm/3 ft at the shoulder, this gregarious animal roots for food in many types of habitat. The giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinerzthageni) lives in thick forests of central Africa and grows up to 1.9 m/6 ft long. The wart hog is another African wild pig. The pygmy hog (Sus salvanus), the smallest of the pig family, is about 65 cm long (25 cm at the shoulder) and weighs 8–9 kg.



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"They don't waste anything here," said the guide, and then he laughed and added a witticism, which he was pleased that his unsophisticated friends should take to be his own: "They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
This hog was always wallowing there, and as he was the only hog we saw, his frequent repetition, together with his unvarying similarity to himself, finally caused me to reflect that he must be the same hog, and this led me to the deduction that this must be the same spring, also--which indeed it was.
May the wild hog defile my grave, but thou speakest wisdom
 
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