From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Elliot
Date:
3 Aug [1869]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University
Summary:
Asks whether the wild boar in India is polygamous.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Asks whether the wild boar in India is polygamous.
Polygamous breeding habits of the Indian wild boar. [See Descent 1: 267.]
Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]