The Sulawesi drawings could also be the oldest animal drawing ever found. Last year, a cave painting in Borneo - thought to be the oldest of an animal - was found to be at least 40,000 years old.

Why it's awesome: When we think of pigs, we tend to picture round animals with cute snouts ... in rainforests on the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi and Buru, and the Togian and Sula archipelagos ...

If one animal is gone, we just look for others ... In a forest in North Sulawesi a hunter tests a trap that could catch a pig or a forest rat or a deer—or an unsuspecting monkey by its ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In a wild animal market in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, bats are still on the menu. Many of them are caught by hunters in forests using nets and hooks.

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Sulawesi is in a key location ... The group sits on a dividing line, either side of which you find very different animals and plants. But Wallacea's significance also is that it must have been ...

Conservationists at the zoo say the animals are also ‘largely misunderstood ... of wild cattle and is found only on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Credit: Chester Zoo Callum Garner ...

The anoa is native to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia and listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as an endangered animal with only an estimated 2,500 left in the ...