Anoa Habitat and Ecology

Ecology and habitat Anoa mountains located on the island of Sulawesi and Buton Island in Indonesia. Anoa Mountains included in the category of rain forest animals, and choose an area that contained a lot of vegetation, permanent water sources and away from the reach of the mountains manusia.Anoa usually bathe in the mud, as well as the wild buffalo. This might be because he needs the minerals contained therein. Anoa Mountains are very active in the morning, he returned refuge at midday. They take shelter under a large tree that fell, under large rocks and among the roots of trees. Horns are used to get rid of twigs or to dig up the soil, and is also used during a physical fight with another anoa to show dominance. Anoa mountains live solitary or in pairs.

Threats Anoa mountains are usually hunted for their skin, meat and horns. Besides clearing of forests for agriculture and gold mining are also increasingly threatened habitat Pegungungan Anoa, because he lost habitat and source of food, and he can not adjust to human presence.