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CHAPTER 1 THAT’s FREAKING UGLY!

The warthog, with its misshapen face and squinty eyes, is certainly no beauty. And its temperament matches its looks! It has lashed people to death with its tusk-like teeth. Fifty years ago, the naturalist Pitman observed, “It is one of the most astonishing objects which has ever disgraced nature; its face seems to have gone all wrong.”

What a swine!

Pollution can do a great deal of harm to animals. This frog is missing an eye!

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