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The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs (Hardcover)

by Lyall Watson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd (16 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1861977360
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861977366
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 270,564 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Pigs are dramatically different from their closest and more placid relatives, sheep, deer and cattle. During forty million years of evolution, they seem to have made a series of canny decisions, adapting to changing circumstances much as humans have - by becoming more versatile, more gregarious and more curious. Sixteen species of wild pigs now occupy every continent except Australia and Antarctica, filling in the environmental gaps by deploying a panoply of domestic and feral forms - pigs for all seasons. The Whole Hog is their story. The biologist Lyall Watson has tracked pigs in the wild, observed their resourceful and playful lives, deciphered their grunts and oinks - and is convinced pigs deserve new respect.


About the Author

Lyall Watson is a curious naturalist and author of more than twenty books, including Supernature, Lifetide, Lightning Bird and Jacobson's Organ. He divides his time between a farmhouse on the west coast of Ireland and a ranch house in the high desert of New Mexico.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Informative and very funny, 16 Jan 2008
This review is from: The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs (Paperback)
Watson's book on the much maligned porker is excellent. Scientifically accurate, drawing on his personal experiences as a child in Africa, it left me with a greater appreciation of the intelligence, social complexity and survival skills of ham bearing creatures.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and informative, 27 Mar 2009
By A. Byrnes "Andie" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This was bought for me one Christmas as something as a joke, because at that time I had become somewhat obsessed with the hog and pig in archaeological contexts. I could bore on about pigs for hours (still can, for that matter, but I tend to get stamped on!).

But this book, although very funny in many places, is anything but a joke. It is a humourous and affectionate account of different types of hog. The author grew up with them in Africa and tells some excellent anecdotes, many very amusing, but he obviously became fascinated by the characteristics and habits of these animals in a very serious way.

Watson explores and describes hogs in great detail, offering very high quality insights into their behaviour as individuals and in groups. He mixes science and narrative in a very skilled way, sharing knowledge and carrying the reader along with him.

I learned a considerable amount from the book, as much about the differences as about the similarities of different types of pig and their advantages. And I enjoyed it enormously.

I also bought the book for a number of people as gifts because the writing style is engaging, digestible, and entertaining without being patronising, over-simplified or, a horrible dread, slapstick. I received lots of positive reports from my somewhat risky gift, which is a great compliment to Lyall Watson because I bought it for some very different people whose interests have nothing in common with mine.

Thanks to Mr Watson for a great book. I am grateful to him for sharing his knowledge and his experiences.
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