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COLLARED PECCARY FACTS
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Description
Collared Peccaries look like pigs. They are grayish black, with a yellow tinge on cheeks and a white or yellowish collar over the shoulders round to the throat. Males and females are very similar in size and color. Young are a yellowish brown with a black stripe on the back. Collared Peccaries have short very sharp tusks.
Other Names
Javelina
Size
Length: 0.8 to 1.0 m. Weight: 15 to 25 kg
Environment
forest, rainforest, desert
Food
roots, bulbs, beans, nuts, berries, grass, and agaves, cacti.
Breeding
One to three young are born after a gestation period of about 150 days. Young are weaned after 2 to 3 months.
Range
South America, Central America, and southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the United States
Classification
| Class: | Mammalia | | Order: | Artiodactyla | | Family: | Tayassuidae | | Genus: | Pecari | | Species: | tajacu | | Common Name: | Collared Peccary |
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