Babi Hutan...@ Wild Boar....

Bearded Wild Boar

Not so wild boar of Bako....

General Characteristics

Body Length:100-165 cm / 3.3-5.5 ft. Shoulder Height: 72-85 cm / 2.4-2.8 ft. Tail Length: 20-30 cm / 8-12 in. Weight: 150 kg / 333 lb.
The sparsely haired hide is dark brown to grey in colouration. Thin, yellowish whiskers on the side of the face over the bridge of the nose form the "beard" after which this pig is named. On the long face are two pairs of warts, the front pair usually covered by the beard. The body of the bearded pig is the slenderest found among pigs, and is supported by thin legs. Unique among the family, the tail has a two-rowed tuft, much like an elephant's.

Bearded pigs are defined under three subspecies Susbarbatus barbatus, resident to the island of Borneo(Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei) Sus barbatus ahoenobarbus(Philippines) and S. barbatus oi, found only onthe Indonesian island of Sumatra. On Sumatra, oneother pig species is present, the wild or common boar(S. scrofa)

Wild boar reportedly kills Malaysian
June 14, 2006
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia --A wild boar possibly enraged by an injury attacked and killed a worker at a rubber plantation in southern Malaysia, a newspaper reported Thursday.
The victim, was spraying pesticide with a fellow contractor on Wednesday when the boar emerged from a forested area at the plantation near Bahau town, some 50 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, The Star newspaper reported.
The 220-pound boar mowed down the victim and gored him in the chest and stomach.
Wildlife officials later tracked the boar to a nearby river bank, where it was shot and killed.
Malaysian rangers typically shoot wild animals that attack humans, but make attempts to move them back into nature reserves if they simply wander into populated areas.
© Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company

Compare it to this

Hunters use dogs to track down wild game--usually the babi hutan (wild boars). Often, a hunter will go out alone with a single dog. The dog catches the scent of a boar and starts barking. When the dog catches up with the boar, the boar will turn on the dog and stand there to defend itself. Meanwhile, the native hunter catches up and will either attack the boar with his spear; or more often, the boar will attack the hunter... but i guess the boar will end being carried back to the longhouse....