Le Sanglier d'Afrique
ca.1780. Plate from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle", circa 1780. Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his "Histoire Naturelle" during his lifetime, with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death. The warthog ( Phacochoerus africanus ), a robust savannah suid recognizable by its large curved tusks, warty head and dorsal maneDiurnal and omnivorous, it feeds by kneeling to graze and root in the soil, living in small groups in the sub-Saharan savannas. Plate size 195 x 160mm 280 by 190mm (11 by 7½ inches). Item #32657
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