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White-lipped peccaries (Tayassu peccari) Mother & piglets.
VERY RARE TO HAVE 4 PIGLETS. STUDIES SHOW 1 - 3 IS THE NORM. PHOTOGRAPHED IN: Mato Grosso do Sur Province. BRAZIL. South America. RANGE: se Veracruz State, Mexico to n Argentina. In wet tropical forests, dry tropical forests, tropical wooded savanna and thorn scrub.
Peccaries are omnivorous but prefer fruit, seeds, roots and stems. They are gregarious and live in large groups. This group numbered over 1,000 animals which is very rare as today they are severly hunted and are suffering from habitat distruction as they need large territores.

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White-lipped peccaries (Tayassu peccari) Mother & piglets. <br /> VERY RARE TO HAVE 4 PIGLETS. STUDIES SHOW 1 - 3 IS THE NORM. PHOTOGRAPHED IN: Mato Grosso do Sur Province. BRAZIL. South America. RANGE: se Veracruz State, Mexico to n Argentina. In wet tropical forests, dry tropical forests, tropical wooded savanna and thorn scrub. <br /> Peccaries are omnivorous but prefer fruit, seeds, roots and stems. They are gregarious and live in large groups. This group numbered over 1,000 animals which is very rare as today they are severly hunted and are suffering from habitat distruction as they need large territores.
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