congress - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1959 - 3.50 Shilling

Also, the wild boar has always been a coveted by hunters animal. Its black-gray, bristly coat owes its name wild boar. It is the ancestral form of the domestic pig. The males, in the hunter language boar or boar called, are up to 200 kilos heavy. They have with their sharp canines effective weapons, which, however, also serve for the purpose of foraging, namely to rupture the soil to expose scary through the disc-shaped trunk. The canines of the upper jaw are called Haderer, those of the lower jaw Hauer. As a wild boar the wild boar is one of the omnivores, acorns are particularly popular, with which it eats a thick bacon rind in rich fruit years. The mating or intoxication falls into late autumn, the female, the "Bache", throws after four months of gestation up to twelve newcomers who wear a longitudinal striped youth dress. In the Middle Ages, the hunt for wild boar with the so-called "Saufeder", a two -meter-long skewer with a broad, double-edged end blade, which was held up to the onslaughing animal, was common.