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: 52 Jifí MORAVEC & Wolfgang Böhme: Second Find of the Recently Discovered Amazonian Giant Peccary, Pécari maximus Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 4. Live Pécari maximus from the type locaHty. Photograph L. Frenz. trees Bertholletia excelsa. The upper canopy closes at the height of 30^0 m. The densest understory is associated with moist depressions along forest brooks. 3. CONCLUSION The assumption by the discoverers of Pécari maximus that it might be more widely distributed than known so far has been corroborated by the new, distant find of this species in NW Bolivia. As to its conservation status according to lUCN criteria, it must certainly be regarded as "data de- ficient". But possible severe threats have already been list- ed by VAN RoosMALEN et al. (2007). However, it could well serve as an impressive flagship species for protect- ing the entire interfluve range between Rio Madeira and Rio Tapajos which yielded several impressive new mam- mal discoveries and is certainly also full of other, still un- described vertebrate species. Therefore, we strongly sup- port the appeal by van Roosmalen et al. (2007) to encour- age UNESCO to urge the Brazilian and Bolivian govern- ments to declare the entire region a - frontier-crossing - World Heritage Site, including also the rain forest part of neighbouring Peru. Acknowledgements. We thank Lothar Frenz, Hamburg, for the permission to use a photograph of a live Pécari maximus spec- imen taken by him at the type locality in Brazil. The senior au- thor is indebted to James Aparicio, Collección BoHviana de Fau- na (CBF), La Paz, for continuing support during his field research trips to Bolivia. The work of JM was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, project MK00002327201. The junior author thanks his two mammological colleagues at ZFMK, Bonn, Rainer Hutterer and Gustav Peters, for sharing their ex- perience with him, and for constructive comments. REFERENCES Böhme, W. & Hutterer, R. 1999. Leben und Werk von Mar- tin Eisentraut (1902-1994). Bonner zoologische Beiträge 48: 367-382. Böhme, W. & Stiels, D. 2007. Totgesagte leben länger: Wieder- entdeckungen ausgestorben geglaubter Landwirbeltiere. Koenigiana 1: 21-39. Eisenberg, J. F. & Redford, K. H. (eds.). 1999. Mammals of the Neotropics. The Central Neotropics, vol. 3: Ecuador, Pe- ru, Bolivia, Brazil. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, i-x+609 pp. EiSENTRAUT, M. 1986. Über das Vorkommen des Chaco-Peka- ri, Catagonus wagneri, in Bolivien. Bonner zoologische Bei- träge 37: 43^7. Sowls, L. K. 1984. The peccaries. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 251 pp. 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.