Despite being being highly intelligent and engaging animals suids and peccaries have a largely negative association for many visitors to zoos.
They consequently often fail to get the ex-situ and in-situ attention that they deserve despite 10 species of the world's 17 wild pigs (and 1 of the...
Here is the website of the IUCN wild pig & peccary specialist group which is full of interesting literature and information on the worlds wild pigs and peccaries and their conservation.
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Wild Pig, Peccary & Hippo Specialist Groups
I was wondering is anyone remebered an exhibit the CNE homestead one year, it was a jungle exhibit, if I remember correctly it was in the Ontario Government Building.
I remember it featured a number of live animals including a melanistic Jaguar, Peccaries and Parrots.
This would probably have...