Red River Hog (Potamochoerus porcus)

[guppiecat]

The red river hog is actually a red hog that likes rivers in Africa. It does not actually live on the Red River. Not that there’s one Red River. There are actually two, one up North near me and one way down South. Judging from Google Earth, neither of these rivers is actually red. Just in case the colours changed due to the pollution reduction efforts of the EPA, I checked the oldest photos I could, but apparently back then the rivers were sorta black and grey.

Anyway, here’s a completely unrelated pig.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

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[mizkit.livejournal.com]

There are red river hogs at the Dublin zoo, too, and I spend a fair amount of time confused about the name. I mean, I know that they are red hogs that hang out near rivers, not actually Red River hogs, but I persistently sing Red River Valley as we approach them and remain convinced on some level that they are obviously inextricably linked with the Red River. The Southern one. I didn't know there was a northern one. :)