Yes. You've correctly named the Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri). 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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3)—Dickerson Park Zoo’s animal care staff welcomed the arrival of three lesser kudus and a Chacoan peccary. Kudu are bushland antelopes native to East ...

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 ...