Collared Peccary

Thursday, December 29, 2011

  
The Life of Animals | Collared Peccary | The collared peccary is a widespread That creature can be found throughout much of the tropical and subtropical Americas, ranging from the Southwestern United States to northern Argentina in South America. It inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands, tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands, flooded grasslands and savannas, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and Several other habitats, as well.




Notable Populations are known to exist in the suburbs of Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. Collared peccaries normally feed on fruits, roots, tubers, palm nuts, grasses, invertebrates and small vertebrates. A collared peccary Will also release a strong musk if it is alarmed.