Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Artiodactyla > Suidae > Babyrousa > Babyrousa babyrussaBabyrousa babyrussa (babirusa)Synonyms: Babyrousa alfurus; Babyrousa babirousa; Babyrousa babyrussa babyrussa; Babyrousa frosti; Babyrousa indicus; Babyrousa orientalis; Babyrousa quadricornus; Sus babyrussa The Buru babirusa (Babyrousa babyrussa), also known as the Moluccan babirusa, golden babirusa or hairy babirusa, is a wild pig-like animal native to the island of Buru and the two Sula Islands of Mangole and Taliabu, all belonging to Indonesia. Traditionally, this relatively small species included the other babirusas as subspecies, but it has been recommended treating them as separate species based on differences in their morphology. As also suggested by its alternative common names, the Buru Babirusa has relatively long thick, gold-brown body-hair – a feature not shared by the other extant babirusas. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 16.02 EDGE Score: 4.22 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 157.631 lbs (71.50 kg) | | Birth Weight [1] | 1.576 lbs (715 g) |  | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 40 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 60 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % |  | | Female Maturity [1] | 1 year 6 months | | Male Maturity [1] | 1 year 6 months |  | | Gestation [1] | 5 months 3 days | | Litter Size [1] | 1 | | Litters / Year [1] | 2 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 23 years | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 3.313 feet (101 cm) | | Weaning [1] | 7 months 3 days |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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