חוקרים שצדו פרט של פקארי ענק
English: Title: Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn Identifier: bonnerzoo555620072009zool (find matches) Year: 1950 (1950s) Authors: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig Subjects: Biology; Zoology Publisher: Bonn : Das Forschungsinstitut Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Bonner zoologische Beiträge 56 (2007) 51 Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 3. Local hunter beginning to skin same specimen. Photograph J. Moravec. of the cheek area only). The brown dark mottled fur colouration differed from the strongly speckled dark black- ish-grey ñir colouration of P. tayacu as well as from the blackish brown longer fur of T. pécari. In the figures the differences in fur colour and bristle-haired texture are ev- ident although the freshly killed female pig lay in a for- est creek and was therefore wet. All characteristics given above are diagnostic for P. max- imus from Rio Aripuana in Brazil, compared with its on- ly congener P. tayacu (Fig. 4). It is characterized "in be- ing much larger but less robust, with much longer legs and a proportionally small head only slightly bigger than that of P. tayacu. Most of the body is thinly bristle-haired, over- all colour brown mixed with dirty white, a black mid-dor- sal mane running from the ears as far as the rudimentary tail. Nasal disc pinkish, relatively small and soft" (van RoosMALEN et al. 2007). According to this diagnosis, the Bolivian female specimen described here belongs with- out any doubt to Pécari maximus and represents thus the second documented record for this new species. At the same time, it is the first record from outside Brazil, viz. from Bolivia. The distance between the type locality of P. maximus (left bank of the Rio Aparuana, at the mouth of its tributary Rio Arauazinho, 06°16'S, 60°20'W) is about 1000 km away from our new locality (11°08'S, 69°22'W). However, van RoosMALEN et al. (2007) cited already an old report by an American rubber cutter, J. C. Yungjohann, who had lived in the Rio Xapuri area from 1906-1919 which is on- ly 80-100 km NE of the Bolivian site at Bioceanica. Sim- ilarly as the German farmer in the Bolivian Chaco men- tioned above, Yungjohann also reported already one cen- tury prior to the "official", zoological discovery on a third species of "bush pigs": "There is a great, big one porcao, they travel in pairs, and are very lively" (Yungjohann 2003). Obviously, this truly cryptozoological information is now proven by the new record oí P. maximus described here. Also the characterization of P. maximus by Yungjohann as living in pairs fits the information given by van Roos- malen et al. (2007) that this species - in strong contrast to the large herds of both P. tayacu and T. pécari (SowLS 1984) - lives "in small family groups that consist of an adult pair with or without 1-2 offspring". Also the young female from Bioceanica was, according to the hunters, part of a small group of only four specimens. The area of Bioceanica is characterized by undulating ter- rain, with the elevation ranging from ca. 250 to 300 m a.s.l. It is covered by tall, slightly selectively logged terra firme rain forest characterized by an abundance of Brazil nut Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.