Why it's awesome: When we think of pigs, we tend to picture round animals with cute snouts, but babirusas are very different. Male babirusas have large upper canine teeth, which grow downwards before ...

Babirusas are no ordinary pigs. Found in the swamps and rainforests of Indonesian islands, babirusas have barrel-shaped bodies balanced on delicate, deer-like legs. The most well-known species of ...

Camera traps have snapped the babirusa “deer-pig,” a type of tusked wild swine, on an island in Indonesia where they hadn’t been observed in more than a quarter of a century. Locals on Buru Island had ...

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