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The Forest-pig of Central Africa

Nature volume 70, page 577 (1904)Cite this article

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IT may interest many of your readers to know that the “forest-pig” heard of, at the same time as the okapi, by Sir Henry Stanley, and later on by Sir Harry Johnston, has at last been obtained and presented to the National Museum by Mr. R. Meinertzhagen.

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THOMAS, O. The Forest-pig of Central Africa. Nature 70, 577 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070577a0

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