Male babirusas have large upper canine teeth ... which is how babirusas got their name — the word babirusa means "pig deer" in the Malay language. Babirusas are also sometimes called ...

A male babirusa's canines are an evolutionary mystery: They never stop growing, they're too fragile to hunt or forage with, and, given time, they end up twisting and penetrating the animal's own ...

Reports indicate that Bucky, who was also ‘one of the oldest babirusa in North America,’ was killed by a male greater one-horned rhinoceros, named Vishnu, after the sweet ‘deer pig ...