Suid

Owing to the kindness of Mr. M. A. Hinton, I have been able to examine at leisure the large collection of recent Suid skulls in the British Museum.

Table 18.1 shows the results obtained by the Haemagglutination-Inhibition Test on ten suid feeds with the anti-warthog system and the converse anti-bushpig system.

In a study by Harris and Cerling (2002), isotopic analysis of the enamel of extant and Neogene suids shows that major components of C₄ vegetation (i.e., warm-growing season grasses) were present in extinct suid species from the Turkana Basin deposits of northern Kenya as early as about 7Ma.