As the procession spread out I spotted more pets - kittens and bearded pigs, a woman with a squirrel in a home-made cage, a small boy carrying a beautiful, struggling cockerel and one stunning rhinoceros hornbill.
Bearded pigs sometimes have beards so big that they can barely see.
Most species used Acacia forest less frequently than secondary forest, possibly for transit or foraging, with the exception of bearded pigs (Sus barbatus), sambar (Rucervus unicolor), and civets which were more common in Acacia stands.
A more bizarre sight near the restaurant is a family (well, they look like a family) of bearded pigs.
The jungle is inhabited by rats, civet cats, bearded pigs, monkeys and orangutan.
No more bearded ladies and men on stilts.
When the rainforests disappear almost all of the wildlife – including the orangutans, tigers, sun bears, bearded pigs and other endangered species – and indigenous people go.
Gibbons hang from forest canopies, thousands of species of birds nest in the trees, and there are also leopards, pygmy elephants, Sumatran tigers, bearded pigs and rhinoceros.
Anteaters, hedgehoglike animals called tenrecs, and rabbitlike hyraxes are doing fine, but gaurs, sloth bears, Bactrian camels, and bearded pigs are not.
In Bako national park, Borneo, bearded pigs have a taste for seafood and when the tide is out they head for the beach.
