The Chacoan peccary looks a lot like a big, hairy pig. And it grunts and snorts like a pig, too. Yet while the peccary shares a common ancestry with the pig, the two animals are very different ...

Although javelinas look similar to pigs or boars, they are not in the same family. Javelinas are in the peccary family, hooved mammals originating in South America. Javelinas are known as collared ...