Every zoo under the sun has an African savannah and Amazon rainforest exhibit, and while those are always cool, I feel like there is another amazing habitat that barely ever gets any representation in the zoo world: the Pacific Islands. The area of the world that is not quite Asia and not quite...
I remember having seen these extraordinary looking suids at a number of European zoos during the 1990's and early 2000's and looking on Zootierliste it appears that over 30 zoos across the continent once held and presumably bred the babirusa.
Today if Zootierliste is anything to go by the...
In august 2006, a world sensation was born in Copenhagen Zoo. Three young babirusa/pig hybrids. These may have changed genetic research as we know it, since sientist did not believe that two such different species could breed. One of the piglets is babirusa coloured, one is a mix of pale and...
In august 2006, a world sensation was born in Copenhagen Zoo. Three young babirusa/pig hybrids. These may have changed genetic research as we know it, since sientist did not believe that two such different species could breed.
This is a photo of three piglets. As you can see, one is babirusa...
In august 2006, a world sensation was born in Copenhagen Zoo. Three young babirusa/pig hybrids. These may have changed genetic research as we know it, since sientist did not believe that two such different species could breed.
This is a photo of the domestic pig mother and the piglets. As you...
The lone babirusa male in the old Elephant House in Copenhagen Zoo. This male was made famous in 2006, when he fathered the famous three pig/babirusa hybrid piglets. If any of you haven't heard about them, I can tell you that it's a world sensation. According to science and genetic research at...