Show HOG OF BRILLIANT COLOR west african animal one of the most brightly colored mammals that beautiful species specie the red river hog bog of west africa 1 8 now well represented in the zoo in corn com mon men with other juvenile wild pigs the red river hog Is striped in the early part of its life when about three months old it loses these markl markings and the body has haa a spotted appear once ce the adult Is one of the most byll heat colored mammals in existence but its bright red huo hue no doubt bar with its the soil boll in many parts of west africa being red it Is of 0 au an elegant shape chape and with its tufted tell tall and long pencola lla ears cars has considerable pretensions to beauty though it li liis hia is not the enormous tusks found in man of the wild swine the red rhet hog la Is not devoid ot of means of defense its face Is protected by hard bard callosities on eath each side ride just below the eleb and there them la Is a bony each side of uie the upper law and that these growths are not merely ornamental la Is proved by the tact fact that this can hold its own with the wirt wart hog a species provided with formidable upturned tusks westminster gazette |