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 ...

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, 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.

Watch this family of collared peccaries at their favorite muddy wallow in the Amazon rainforest. It's a drinking space they've tailor-made with their relentless snuffling and plodding of the wet ...

It is the largest peccary in the world, about the size of a large dog. IE 11 is not supported. ... Until now, only three species were known to science—the collared peccary, ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

Javelinas attacked a pet dog near Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday, in the latest of a series of recent attacks by the animals in the state.. Javelinas, also known as the collared peccary, are ...

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.

The Collared Peccary, a closely-related species For Dr van Roosmalen, who previously discovered a new species of porcupine and seven new kinds of primates in the region, the discovery may be a ...