### animal | vertebrate | mammal | ungulate:

Peccary
* Most peccaries consume fruit
  - eat roots
* Most peccaries have coats
  - glands
  - scent glands
  - senses
  - live in areas
  - never travel far from their place of birth
* Most peccaries originate in hemispheres
  - western hemispheres
* Most peccaries reach maturity
  - sexual maturity
* Most peccaries use canine teeth
* Peccaries also have a dorsal scent gland, located toward the posterior of their backs
  - powerful musk gland on the top of the rump
  - an over-sized head and are covered with long stiff hairs
* Peccaries are a favorite hunting animal
  - active all day long, although mostly at dawn and dusk
  - capable of reproducing twice a year
  - close relatives of pigs and boars
  - game animals
  - herd animals their entire lives
  - immune to some snake venoms
  - nocturnal animals in the pig family that travel in herds
  - omnivorous but prefer roots, fruit and seeds or in desert areas, cacti
  - omnivorous, feeding on a variety of plants, small animals, and carrion
  - pig-like animals native to the area
  - plant eaters and use it for defense
  - social animals , and often form herds
  - usually dark gray and have a white collar on the neck
  - belong to a separate genus indigenous only to North America
* Peccaries eat cacti
  - fruits, seeds, berries, nuts, vines, snakes, and insects
  - have a complex stomach that contains four compartments
* Peccaries have a long fossil history
  - history in North America
  - complex stomachs that can effectively digest fiber like ruminants
  - grey coats
  - large, sharp canines that form a distinct lump under the lips
  - long, coarse dark gray hair with a whitish collar on their neck
  - poor vision, fair hearing and a keen sense of smell
* Peccaries have scent glands below each eye and on their backs which are used to mark territories
* Peccaries includes brains
  - cannon bones
  - cell membranes
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - faces
  - hip sockets
  - nuclei
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
* Peccaries live in areas
  - herds composed of large family groups
  - small groups
  - look much like pigs and live in similar ways
  - mainly feed on berries, grass, roots, beans, nuts and cacti
  - make snorting, woofing, and grunting noises
  - mark territories with a skunk-like odor which is detectable from hundreds of feet away
  - normally come out in the evenings and early mornings to forage for food
  - occupy a great variety of habitats, from rainforest to woodlands to desert scrub
* Peccaries share remarkable similarity
  - shelter in thickets or under large boulders
  - spend most of their time resting and feeding
  - tend to remain near permanent sources of water
  - travel long distances and their presence in a certain area is episodic and unpredictable
* Some peccaries adapt to fire
  - consume flowers
  - die from diseases
* Some peccaries eat food
  - herbivorous food
* Some peccaries emerge from national parks
  - feed on cacti
* Some peccaries have long snouts
  - kill dogs
* Some peccaries live in desert regions
  - sport round snouts
  - use bark
* hoofed mammal

### animal | vertebrate | mammal | ungulate | peccary:

Collar peccary
* Collar peccaries eat roots.
* Most collar peccaries eat roots.
* Some collar peccaries have long snouts
* Some collar peccaries live in desert regions