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Article: Rooting for peccaries
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- Americas
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Organization of American States, Sales and Promotion Division Jul/Aug 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ALthough these pigLike animals are common fom Argentina to the U.S. Southwest, the largest of their species is theatened with extinction in the Gran Chaco
id-morning and the heat of Bolivia's Gran Chaco was beginning to get to wildlife biologist Andrew Taber. The temperature in the hot, dry desert and thornbush region had already hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit and was still climbing. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Taber peered from under a bottle tree, eyes searching through the vibrating haze for his elusive quarry.
Suddenly, something ahead moved. Four shaggy animals with large heads, white collars around their necks, and long, bristly hairs on their backs emerged from the desert ...