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Wild boar, as Yamamoto observes in her new book on the beasts, are shy and nocturnal creatures--and though omnivores, are not very likely to leap your backyard fence and attack your pets. . . . Yamamoto does not underplay the damage that razorbacks can do. . . . But she looks skeptically at the divisive wild-boar wars that wrack Britain at the moment (hunters, farmers, and animal advocates warring over the mostly-reclusive pigs). And she comments wryly on the American tendency to make the boar into 'Hogzilla, ' a crypto-pig that has become the Sasquatch of the South. . . . Wild Boar is lovingly illustrated. --Tim Morris lection

""Wild boar are despised for what is seen as their incredible destructive powers when they range over lands claimed by humans. Yamamoto's summary could apply to other animals too . . .: 'Wild boar have been described as many things, but they are always characterized in the light of human concerns and priorities.' If we have a human nature, it seems to involve subjugation of other animals' lives to our own.""--Barbara J. King ""Times Literary Supplement"" ""Wild boar, as Yamamoto observes in her new book on the beasts, are shy and nocturnal creatures--and though omnivores, are not very likely to leap your backyard fence and attack your pets. . . . Yamamoto does not underplay the damage that razorbacks can do. . . . But she looks skeptically at the divisive wild-boar wars that wrack Britain at the moment (hunters, farmers, and animal advocates warring over the mostly-reclusive pigs). And she comments wryly on the American tendency to make the boar into 'Hogzilla, ' a crypto-pig that has become the Sasquatch of the South. . . . Wild Boar is lovingly illustrated.""--Tim Morris ""lection""

Wild boar are despised for what is seen as their incredible destructive powers when they range over lands claimed by humans. Yamamoto's summary could apply to other animals too . . .: 'Wild boar have been described as many things, but they are always characterized in the light of human concerns and priorities.' If we have a human nature, it seems to involve subjugation of other animals' lives to our own. --Barbara J. King Times Literary Supplement Wild boar, as Yamamoto observes in her new book on the beasts, are shy and nocturnal creatures--and though omnivores, are not very likely to leap your backyard fence and attack your pets. . . . Yamamoto does not underplay the damage that razorbacks can do. . . . But she looks skeptically at the divisive wild-boar wars that wrack Britain at the moment (hunters, farmers, and animal advocates warring over the mostly-reclusive pigs). And she comments wryly on the American tendency to make the boar into 'Hogzilla, ' a crypto-pig that has become the Sasquatch of the South. . . . Wild Boar is lovingly illustrated. --Tim Morris lection

Wild boar are despised for what is seen as their incredible destructive powers when they range over lands claimed by humans. Yamamoto's summary could apply to other animals too . . .: 'Wild boar have been described as many things, but they are always characterized in the light of human concerns and priorities.' If we have a human nature, it seems to involve subjugation of other animals' lives to our own. --Barbara J. King Times Literary Supplement Wild boar, as Yamamoto observes in her new book on the beasts, are shy and nocturnal creatures--and though omnivores, are not very likely to leap your backyard fence and attack your pets. . . . Yamamoto does not underplay the damage that razorbacks can do. . . . But she looks skeptically at the divisive wild-boar wars that wrack Britain at the moment (hunters, farmers, and animal advocates warring over the mostly-reclusive pigs). And she comments wryly on the American tendency to make the boar into 'Hogzilla, ' a crypto-pig that has become the Sasquatch of the South. . . . Wild Boar is lovingly illustrated. --Tim Morris lection

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Dorothy Yamamoto is a poet, the co-editor of Animals on the Agenda (1998). She is author of The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature (2000) and Guinea Pig (Reaktion, 2015) .She lives in Oxford.

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