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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — The start of the new year brought another reason to celebrate for the San Antonio Zoo: the facility's first-ever birth of a babirusa, a name that translates literally to "pig deer" in ...

Disney animal care named the baby piglet Kiranah, which translates to "sunbeam" in Indonesian A babirusa piglet just made history at Walt Disney's Animal Kingdom — simply by being born. Dr. Mark ...

Eastlake's been waiting for a place like Babirusa. On a Wednesday night at ten o'clock, every seat at the bar is taken, and the half-dozen tables are nearly full, too, with everyone eating and ...

MIAMI - For the first time in its history, an endangered babirusa has been born at Zoo Miami. According to the zoo, it was the first baby for nearly five-year-old Maggie, who came from the St. Louis ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The first North Sulawesi babirusa piglets to be born at the San Diego Zoo are now on display. The piglets were born to first-time mother Fig on Sept. 6, leading handlers to call them ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The autumn babies at New Orleans' Audubon Zoo include a pair of threatened piglets native to Indonesia. The zoo says the babirusa piglets were born Oct. 14 and allowed into the ...

The babirusa, also called the "deer-pig," lives in Indonesia. It is known for its unusual upward-curving tusks. The babirusa lives in forests and eats plants and small animals. It is a shy animal and ...