Have you ever heard the expression “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck?" Although this saying has some truth to it, we should also remember ...

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 ...

Rain forests are rich in biodiversity and are home to many different plants and animals as well as indigenous communities. Humans, even those who don’t live in the rain forest, rely on it for ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALL interested in the breeding of wild animals in captivity will welcome the announcement that two collared peccaries have just been born in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, for it is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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