Chacoan Peccary (Catagonus wagneri)
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Description: Fact sheet from EDGE, a conservation organization that focuses specifically on threatened species that represent a significant amount of unique evolutionary history.
EDGE :: Mammal Species Information The largest of the three living species of peccary, the Chacoan peccary is a pig-like mammal with a long, flexible snout and a coat of grey brown bristly fur. Although it was known from fossil material dating back to the Pleistocene, scientists believed it to have long been extinct until a living population was reported in the early 1970s. The species is well adapted to the dry, hostile climate in which it lives, and obtains most of its water from fleshy plants, such as cacti and bromeliads. The main threats to the species are thought to be from habitat loss and fragmentation and overhunting, although disease may also be contributing to population declines.
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