#Babirusa

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

yes, I know, not on blog theme, but we're a bunch of dino lovers so I wanted to see what we thought was weird in mammals

[antiqueanimals]

Babirusa by Louis A. Sargent. From Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. Two. Written by Frank Finn, published in 1909.

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[prairiegh0st]

Hooftober '24 Days 1-3

[vveedwacker]

New reference of my True-sona NABU NABERIUS

[odditiesnoctobermidnightroad]

Familiar Fridays - Babirusa

The metal-looking but beautifully peaceful wild pig known as the Babirusa off the islands of Indonesia. They’re called ‘deer pigs’, I guess and they certainly fit the bill with those giant curving antler-teeth don’t they? Without the extra fur they always look kind of like a punkrocker living their best lives.

[trashrat176]

more animal sketches!!

[dougdimmadodo]

Sulawesi Babirusa (Babyrousa celebensis)

Family: Pig Family (Suidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Vulnerable

Native to the islands of Sulawesi, Pulau Muna, Butung and Lembeh in Indonesia, the Sulawesi Babirusa is a small, slender, almost entirely hairless species of wild pig best known for the four enormous curled tusks seen in adult males (which are derived from highly elongated canine teeth,) although adult females also possess a single pair of smaller, less elaborate tusks protruding from their lower jaws. The tusks of a male babirusa are used to intimidate rival males and impress potential mates (with females generally preferring males with larger, curlier tusks,) although despite their impressive appearance they are brittle and unsuited for fighting; males generally resolve conflicts through intimidation alone, but if a fight does occur they instead rear up onto their hind legs and strike at each other with their front hooves, similar to a clumsier version of the boxing behaviour of hares. Typically inhabiting dense forests or canebrakes (forest-like areas dominated by tall bamboo of the genus Arundinaria,) members of this species tend to remain near permanent bodies of water such as rivers and large ponds and feed mainly on fallen fruit, although like other pig species they are unspecialised omnivores and will also readily consume leaves, roots and small invertebrates. Female Sulawesi Babirusas live in groups of around 15 adults accompanied by their young, while males are generally solitary outside of the mating season (between January and August). Unlike most pigs females of this species produce only small litters of 1-2 piglets each year, with young being born tuskless and covered in a coat of short, reddish-brown hair.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/74099-Babyrousa-celebensis

[howlsnteeth]

completed tattoo design commission!

[ghostmoor]

aubrey makes a deal with a devil (grl). in 2024 i gotta stop hoarding all my juicy character interactions and start making more loose sequential stuff like this again

[yourfavsasdragondescriptions]

Hikky from Midnight Horror School if possible, please!

i awaken from hibernation

This dragon is... bizarre to look at, to put it mildly. Most of its scales decorate the dragon's body with blue and red stripes (including its wing membranes), but these scales abruptly turn black at the hip, giving the illusion that this dragon is wearing clothes. It has a pattern of golden scales on its underbelly that somewhat resemble the letter 'H'. Its head is the strangest part, having a line of black scales that almost resemble stitches going down the front of its face. Its eyes are a goldenrod color. While it has teeth, two large tusks protrude from its upper jaw a la the babirusa. Unlike the babirusa, this dragon's tusks don't curl back towards its head and instead stick straight up into the air. Said tusks also coincidentally resemble red and blue colored pencils.

When it moves, it almost seems as though this dragon is not a single entity, but two beings that each control the left and right sides of the body. Its breath weapon is a spray of what looks like the drawings of children. This substance vaporizes flesh on contact and those killed by it will sometimes rise again under the dragon's control.

[whiteleech]

I changed the design of my  Babirusa Hybrid OC. 

[nmfonsek-art]

Ghost of a yakuza pig.

[antiqueanimals]

Brehm's Tierleben. Written by Alfred Brehm. Illustration by Gustav Mützel. 1922 edition.

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[peniswizard69]

Shouts the the Buru babirusa, whose scientific name is two distinct misspellings of babirusa

[vveedwacker]

A self portrait thing I guess I didn't post here yet

[borderline-purrsonality]

Thoughts thoughts thoughts… anthro babirusa character who’s a powerful and shitty person but their growing tusks symbolize how close they are to their downfall until eventually their tusks pierce through their head…