White-lipped Peccary (scientific name: Tayassu pecari) has 5 subspecies.White-lipped Peccary is active both during the day and at night, but is mainly nocturnal. They are a nomadic species, always looking for food and water. Living in groups, their estimated home range is between 60-200 square kilom...
The Chacoan Peccary (Catagonus wagneri) has no subspecies. When it was first discovered, there were only some fossils of the Chacoan Peccary and it was thought to be extinct. It was not until 1975 that they were found alive in the Grand Chaco Plain. The indigenous people are very familiar with them....
Collared Peccary (scientific name: Pecari tajacu) has 14 subspecies. Peccary, pronounced tuān, means wild boar. Peccary, as the name suggests, is a wild boar in the West. In biological taxonomy, both peccaries and pigs belong to the order Artiodactyla, but they belong to different families.The coll...
Pecari maximus (scientific name: Pecari maximus) is also known as Pecari Gigante in English. It has no subspecies.The giant peccary is a large forest-dwelling wild boar first discovered in 2000 by Dutch naturalist Marc van Roosmalen in the Rio Aripuan Basin in Brazil. In 2003, he and Lothar Frenz, a...