At first sight, the collared peccary may look simply like an odd small pig. However, to refer to a peccary as a “pig” is doing them a great injustice. Domestic and feral pigs (often referred ...

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The collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu) or Prakka in Makushi, has grizzled grey black and bristly fur, with a crest of longer hair from head to rump and a distinct collar of pale yellow hairs from ...

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.

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 ...

The collared peccary is home to a very unsatisfying fact. Though they have pig-like noses and run around doing very pig-like things, they are not closely related to domestic pigs. In the scientific ...

This is a peccary wallow. Collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) are piglike animals, and like domestic pigs, they love to wallow in mud.

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, also known as the collared peccary because of their white collar around the neck, stand 20 to 24 inches at the shoulder and weigh 35 to 60 pounds. Although javelina have very poor ...

The giant peccary has longer legs and its fur markings are completely different, van Roosmalen said. The new species also behaves differently from its family members, the white-lipped and collared ...

On January 8, 2017, an eight-year-old boy named Dante de Kort spotted a dead collared peccary near his home in central Arizona. For his school science fair project, he set up a motion-activated ...

The collared peccary, which ranges from Texas to Patagonia, is a harmless animal; but its larger relative, the white-tipped peccary, has a bad reputation on account of its ferocity.