female babirusa

another wierd-looking critter!
September 2009
review of my visit here: http://www.zoochat.com/238/ragunan-zoo-visit-27-september-2009-a-107542/

Does Raguan have Buru Babirusa (B. babyrussa) or North Sulawesi Babirusa (B. celebensis)?

~Thylo

all babirusa in zoos are celebensis. The captive stock is horribly inbred, being derived from one male and two females collected by Surabaya Zoo in 1972 (two additonal juvenile males were collected at the same time but there are no records of those two having bred at the zoo).

Ragunan's original babirusa came from Surabaya in 1975.