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Collared Peccary

Pecari tajacu

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Field Notes

Description:

grayish pig

Habitat:

Lake Tobias Wildlife Park

Notes:

Captive mammal Thanks to EmilyMarino for ID

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
Caleb Steindel
i think your right emilymarino. that's an interesting fact!
EmilyMarino
Could be a javelina (collared peccary). But I don't know my peccary species very well. It's kind of cool, collared peccary are more closely related to rodents then they are to pigs. They're not pigs at all!

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PublishedMarch 11, 2013

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