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Buru Babirusa in Antwerpen Zoo
This animal is present on many "weird species" lists across the web. It is remarkable in its strange looks, where its curved tusks at an older age grow straight through their upper jaws, and sometimes even in their skull. They eat everything and anything, if needed even their own kind, and shocking...their own young.
In dutch the species is called "Deer Pig", which is a name I find descriptive.
The Buru babirusa , also known as the Moluccan babirusa, golden babirusa or hairy babirusa, is a wild pig-like animal native to the island of Buru and the two Sula Islands of Mangole and Taliabu, all belonging to Indonesia. Traditionally, this relatively small species included the other babirusas as subspecies, but it has been recommended treating them as separate species based on differences in their morphology. As also suggested by its alternative common names, the Buru Babirusa has relatively.. more
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