Hog in the limelight

摘要

This guy had a hipster beard long before it was cool. Taken by nature enthusiast Edwin Giesbers at the Bako National Park in Malaysia, this close-up of a bearded pig's khaki-coloured eye and leaf-shaped ear also shows off its ratherunkempt facial hair. Bearded pigs (Susbarbatus) live in the tropical forests and mangrove thickets of the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra and surrounding islands. They are the only pig species known to migrate. Some groups go on mammoth annual journeys in search of trees that are about to bear fruit. It can take many weeks, and the pigs travel at night for hundreds of kilometres.