What looks like a pig and smells like a skunk, but isn’t a pig or a skunk? You guessed it, the collared peccary. The collared peccary is home to a very unsatisfying fact. Though they have pig-like ...

Determining presence or absence of collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) from surveys of sign (tracks and feces) requires information on whether animals in sample units are detected. We estimated ...

Wt. 30-55 lb (14-25 kg); Shoulder Ht. 15"-20" (38-50 cm); Length 33"-39" (84-100 cm). Pig-like, the collared peccary is the smallest species of peccary. It has heavy bristly hair from head to back ...

Javelina are best observed from a distance. That could be said of most wild animals, but with the collared peccary, the maxim is particularly true. Foul smelling and equally foul tempered, javelina ...

Biologists have discovered a new species of peccary, a member of the pig family, in the basin of the Rio Aripuanã in the south-eastern Amazon region. The divergence time from the already known peccary ...

The food habits of the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) were determined from three locations in south Texas. From September 1976 through August 1978, peccaries' food preferences on the Zachry Ranch in ...

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION — Researchers with Texas A&M AgriLife are laying the foundation for the science-based management and conservation of javelinas, or collared peccary. Until recently, this native ...

An “incident” Tuesday afternoon involving the Cameron Park Zoo’s male white-tailed deer and collared peccary left the two collared peccary dead, the zoo said in a Facebook post. “Staff responded ...

COCHA CASHU BIOLOGICAL STATION, Peru—At this research outpost in Manú National Park, east of the Andes, there's an open space in the Amazon rain forest, a wet clearing where the surrounding vegetation ...

A new species of pig-like mammal called a peccary has been discovered in the southeastern Amazon region of Brazil, a scientist announced today. It is the largest peccary in the world, about the size ...

An eight-year-old boy, Dante de Kort, spotted a dead collared peccary near his home in central Arizona in January. The fourth-grader set up a motion-activated camera — a birthday present from his ...

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