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 peccary ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – An embattled Dutch scientist claims to have discovered a new species of peccary, a pig-like creature measuring over four feet, nearly twice the size of other Amazon peccaries.

With just 3,000 of the pig-like animals still roaming the Gran Chaco region, a community conservation effort in Argentina is fighting for its future The Chacoan peccary is so elusive that scientists ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. A multinational team of scientists met to discuss the current status and future of the white-lipped peccary, a pig-like mammal that lives in ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles Zoo is celebrating the birth of three critically endangered Chacoan peccary babies. The triplets were born on June 3. They can now be seen on exhibit daily during ...

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, both ...

Populations of white-lipped peccaries, a 'new world' pig-like species usually found throughout Central American tropical forests, are in freefall, new research finds. White-lipped peccaries have ...

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 ...