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white-lipped peccary

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Noun1.white-lipped peccary - blackish peccary with whitish cheekswhite-lipped peccary - blackish peccary with whitish cheeks; larger than the collared peccary
musk hog, peccary - nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America


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The scientists found large mammals, such as the endangered Baird's tapir, white-lipped peccary and four species of monkeys -- Geoffroy's spider monkey, Geoffroy's tamarin, the white-throated capuchin and the mantled howler monkey.
Gros has documented that among endangered mammals living in the reserve are jaguar, ocelot, margay, Baird's tapir, white-lipped peccary, Central American spider monkey, and giant anteater.
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.
 
 
 
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