Unlike feral pigs, the Collared Peccary is not a rooting and digging species but, instead, simply pushes around the soil surface with its nose to locate its preferred food items; thus causing no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike true pigs, javelinas have small, rounded ears, tiny tails, and short, straight tusks. The name “collared peccary” comes from the band of light-colored fur around their necks, which ...

Massive herds of a hairy, pig-like creature known as a peccary sometimes disappear suddenly across much of the Americas, and now we know why – its populations go through 30-year cycles of boom ...

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.

Relish, a female Chacoan peccary born in the spring of 2024, is still getting to know her new mate, Flash. According to her caregivers, she has a spicy personality. Courtesy: Dickerson Park Zoo (ky3) ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Sedgwick County Zoo (SCZ) is morning the loss of Buck, the zoo’s eldest male Chacoan Peccary (pronounced as cha-koe-in peck-uh-ree), who died Sunday. According to ...