In other respects there seems no affinity between these animals, and the Babirusa stands completely isolated, having no resemblance to the pigs of any other part of the world.
The wild pig seems to be of a species peculiar to the island; but a much more curious animal of this family is the Babirusa or Pig-deer; so named by the Malays from its long and slender legs, and curved tusks resembling horns.
When fully grown, the babirusa stands about three feet six inches in height in the middle of the back, which is always very much arched.
But very severe wounds can be inflicted by the lower tusks, although they are a good deal smaller, and an enraged babirusa is a most formidable foe.
On this latter view we may regard the tusks of the male babirusa as examples of redundant development, analogous to that of the single pair of lower teeth in some of the beaked whales.
In the full-grown male Babirusa pig of Celebes (Fig.
Skull of the Babirusa Pig (from Wallace's 'Malay Archipelago').
And master's babirusa would be ensconced in its cage at the zoo in the Botanical Gardens, and it would have attracted every curiosity seeker in town!
I opened a line of credit sufficient to cover the babirusa and, Conseil at my heels, I jumped into a carriage.
I HAD long wished to visit the large island of Bouru, which lies due west of Ceram, and of which scarcely anything appeared to be known to naturalists, except that it contained a babirusa very like that of Celebes.
The strange babirusa of Celebes is also found in Bouru; but in no other Moluccan island, and it is somewhat difficult to imagine how it got there.
At this time the babirusa may have entered Bouru, since it probably swims as well as its allies the pigs.
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