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You won’t see deer, tapir, peccaries, monkeys or chicken-like curassows anywhere within trekking distance of habitation; they’ve all been eaten.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Prehistoric elephants, saber-toothed cats, jaguars, llamas, peccaries, deer, skunks and bears streamed from North America to South.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

His younger brother says that Jhonattan used his last cartridge to scare off a squadron of peccaries, pig-like herd animals found in the rainforests of South America.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2023

While these forests provide critical habitat for jaguars, large endangered hoofed mammals like peccaries and tapirs are most vulnerable, says Reyna-Hurtado.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2020

Why Eurasia’s pigs, but not American peccaries or Africa’s three species of true wild pigs?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond