One of the 3 peccaries on WAnimals
Mammals · Artiodactyla · Tayassuidae
White-Lipped Peccary
Tayassu pecari
Vulnerable
At high risk of extinction in the wild over the medium term.
The white-lipped peccary forms the largest herds of any Neotropical ungulate: groups of fifty to several hundred animals that move through the forest together, turning over the leaf litter in search of fruit, roots and invertebrates. It owes its name to the white patch on its lips. Its passage leaves the ground churned and the pools wallowed, and those wallows are essential microhabitats for amphibians and reptiles. It needs large, continuous forests, and disappears as soon as they are fragmented.
Weight
25 kg – 40 kg
Size
90 cm – 1.4 m
Life expectancy
13 years
