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Article: My hairy neighbors: meet some pig-like animals that "talk" with stinky smells!(behavior of wild pigs called peccaries)
- Article from:
- Ranger Rick
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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Welcome to my ranch. I live deep in a rocky canyon way out in the Arizona desert. I have many wild neighbors. At the end of a summer day, three of my favorites often come for dinner. Just watch!
There - a hairy animal is peeking through the bushes. And another. And another. It's Juan, Jose, and Josefina!
The animals are each about 20 inches (50 cm) high, with rounded backs. And they look and act a bit like pigs. But they're peccaries (PECK-uhrees). Some people around here also call them javelinas (hah-vuh-LEE-nuz).
One species (kind) of peccary lives in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. It's called the collared peccary because it has a band of ...