Oliver watched with great interest as another shape moved in the dappled shade. A sturdy sow stepped from the brambles, three stripy piglets trotting like little humbugs behind her. The friendly boar lifted his snout at once, rumbling softly, but the mother boar swung herself neatly between him and her young.
“She is not rude,” Oliver whispered into his notebook. “She is careful.” He wrote: “Mother boars are very protective. They keep strangers away from their piglets, even friendly ones.” The piglets peeped out from behind their mother’s legs, noses twitching at the acorns. The boar politely kept his distance, snuffling at the ground a little farther off, while the sow listened to every sound, ready to guard her family.
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