Strange Papuan Pigs

With Five Toes!

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, July 4.

FIVE-TOED pigs continue to puzzle the magistrates of the Delta Division, where they abound in some villages. Mr.

C. H. Rich, of the magisterial service, has secured the feet of both an adult pig and a piglet, which the Government are send ing to Mr. A. S. Le Souef, of the Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney, for examination.

Some years ago these pigs were re ported to Mr. Le Souef, who was very in terested in the discovery. He stated at the time that if the pigs mentioned were not freaks—they showed a reversion of evolution, and that if they are common in a certain district they may have evolved from a throwback, or may have been in duced by animals living in swampy grounds.