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Peccary

noun
(pl. peccaries)
1.
Nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America.  Synonym: musk hog.



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"Peccary" Quotes from Famous Books



... the peccary is only found in the southernmost corner of Texas. In April 1892, I made a flying visit to the ranch country of this region, starting from the town of Uvalde with a Texan friend, Mr. John Moore. My trip being very hurried, I had but a couple of ...
— Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches • Theodore Roosevelt

... Among pigs the fierce peccary is a very social animal, going in large packs; and on the back of each of these creatures is found a large gland from which a clear watery fluid is secreted. Dogs and wolves also have their odour-secreting glands on the back, and the "wolf-pack" ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

... hoofed game to kill,—deer of the white-tail groups, seven or eight species; the desert mule deer; the brocket; the prong-horned antelope, the mountain sheep and the peccary. The deer will not so easily be exterminated, but the antelope and sheep will be utterly destroyed. They will be the first to go; and I think they can not by any possibility last longer than ten years. Is it not ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday



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