Species

A collection of animal species from around the world.

*Sources for information and photos (unless they were taken by me) can be found at the bottom of each species profile.

Mammal, South America Alexander Julius Jensen Mammal, South America Alexander Julius Jensen

Chacoan Peccary

The Chacoan peccary was initially described as an extinct species from fossils discovered in 1930. In the early 1970s, a living population was found in an isolated area of Paraguay — in a region known as the Gran Chaco. This species is the largest and rarest of the three living peccaries.

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