Have you ever heard the expression “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck?" Although this saying has some truth to it, we should also remember ...

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 ...

What looks like a pig and smells like a skunk, but isn’t a pig or a skunk? You guessed it, the collared peccary. The collared peccary is home to a very unsatisfying fact. Though they have pig-like ...

Effects of growth, reproduction, sex, age, season, and diet quality on collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu) digestion and assimilation efficiencies, and on nutrient requirements of peccaries in south ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...