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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...