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Every living thing needs water.
However, different living things’ particular ways of accessing/consuming/conserving/using water, are hugely variable.
So are the quantities they require, how often they need to drink – if they do need to drink – and even the very nature of their relationship to water.
Certain terrestrial creatures absolutely relish water…and not just as something to drink or to swim in.
In this respect, warthogs are nigh-peerless.
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Classical Greek statuary, 21st century Hollywood, “supermodels”, “influencers”, Barbie and Ken, the work of profit-maximising cosmetic surgeons or “surgeons”, pedlars of “miracle” diets and so-called “beauticians”…
Is your idea of “beauty” the fruit of parameters set by one or more of the above?
If your answer is an unchangeable “yes”, you will never appreciate that warthogs are indeed beautiful…
Comments closed…but too many humans revile and/or ridicule suids – the pig family.
Warthogs (pictured above, at a waterhole in Namibia) get a particularly “bad press”.
They are routinely described as “ugly”.
Allegedly, their faces are ones that only their mothers could love.
To the best of my knowledge, I bear little resemblance to a warthog, but I really like warthogs’ faces…and their whole-hog selves.
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Arguably, this particular oxymoron nicely describes Phacochoerus africanus – the common warthog.
Ugly Beauty is also the title of an unequivocally beautiful composition by one of jazz’s greatest composers.
This post’s kneeling hero was neither injured, nor pious, and although the fire in this image was part of a lovely dinner experience, warthog was not on the menu.
