Yes. You've correctly named the Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri). The Chacoan peccary looks a lot like a big, hairy pig. And it grunts and snorts like a pig, too. Yet while the peccary shares a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of popular Mexican band Los Alegres del Barranco had their US visas revoked by the State Department after they were accused of "glorifying a drug kingpin" during a recent performance.

Watch Profile: Collared Peccary BC stuns No. 10 Florida St.: 'Heck of a statement' Norvell admits he 'failed' after FSU loses again WR Pearsall out at least 4 games after being shot Chase again ...

Many species thought to be extinct have reappeared in recent years, proving that nature still holds many secrets. From elusive mammals in South America to deep-sea fish, these rediscoveries shed ...

Taco Chronicles traces this method back to the Mayan Pib, a sunken oven method used to cook pheasant, deer and peccary, in a tradition that survived the Mayans.

The white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), a hairy, pig-like mammal that once lived throughout the forests of Central and South America, now only skitters around in 13 percent of its former range ...

Where Peccaries Wallow, Other Animals Follow Peccaries are like pigs: They wallow. In the Peruvian rain forest, those mud puddles are wildlife magnets.

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 Chacoan peccary looks a lot like a big, hairy pig. And it grunts and snorts like a pig, too. Yet while the peccary shares a common ancestry with the pig, the two animals are very different ...