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Catagonus wagneri
(redirected from Chacoan Peccary)

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Catagonus wagneri
Chacoan peccary.


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Farther south, throughout Central and South America, additional varieties of the javelina can be found including the White-Lipped Peccary and the rarer Chacoan Peccary, a protected larger variety with a habitat limited to Northern Argentina, Southeast Bolivia and Western Paraguay, where they overlap with the introduced European pigs.
CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) SPECIAL SWINE A 4-day-old Chacoan peccary infant, a critically endangered species, explores its habitat with its mother at the San Diego Zoo.
It took the scientific community a long time to find out what the local people knew all along," says John Mayer, a wildlife biologist with Westinghouse in the United States who participated as a graduate student in a Chacoan peccary research project in Paraguay that rediscovered the animals in the 1970s.
 
 
 
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