A new species of peccary has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest by a scientist recently charged with biopiracy by the Brazilian government.

Niche partitioning among white-lipped peccaries (tayassu pecari), collared peccaries (pecari tajacu),and feral pigs (sus scrofa) Arnaud Leonard, Jean Desbiez, Sandra Aparecida Santos, Alexine Keuroghlian, Richard Ernest Bodme

Monitoring of leptospirosis seroprevalence in a colony of captive collared peccaries (Tayassu tajacu) from the Peruvian Amazon.
Ferran Jori, Hugo Galvez, Patricia Mendoza, Manuel Cespedes and Pedro Mayor

Developing diets for collared peccary ( Tayassu tajacu) from locally available food resources in Bahia, Brazil

Le potamochère ( Potamochoerus larvatus) est un porc sauvage, seul représentant de l’ordre des Artiodactyles et le plus grand mammifère sauvage que l’on retrouve à Madagascar.