However, during another encounter with a collared peccary in the Big Bend region of Texas, the animal perceived itself to be surrounded and trapped (after first running into heavy brush cover) and ...

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 ...

Frequently my interactions with collared peccaries end up with both of us thinking – AHH! Sometimes while walking through the forest to check cameras, I will accidentally frighten a peccary or group ...

The collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu), commonly known as the javelina, is found as far south as Argentina and as far north as Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Collared peccaries are in the even ...

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 ...

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 ...

The collared peccaries themselves stop by a couple of times a week to bathe and frolic, keeping the wallows open. They come in small families, the adults weighing up to 77 pounds (35 kilograms).

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.

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.