Texas Peecary 
straight or curved, but mever branched, and are not 
shed annually. Teeth as in the deer, but the canines 
are entirely lacking. 
PECCARIES 
Family Dicotylida 
Texas Peccary 
Tayassu angulatum (Cope) 
Length. 34 inches. 
Description. Pig-like, with short erect ears, no tail, bristly hair 
and a scent gland on the back. Individual hairs banded black 
and white, producing a mottled appearance, the face, mane 
of the back, throat, legs, underparts, ears and hoofs are black, 
while a white collar-like band reaches from the sides of the 
neck over the shoulders. 
Range. Texas and south-western Arkansas. The closely related 
collared peccary is found in Mexico. 
Peccaries are the American representatives of the pig family 
and take the place of the wild boars of Europe. Like many 
Other products of the western hemisphere, they are an improve- 
ment upon their like in the Old World inasmuch as_ they are 
distinctly more advanced in development. They have a compli- 
cated stomach, somewhat like that of the ruminant mammals, and 
have three instead of four toes on the hind feet. 
In general appearance the peccary resembles a small black 
pig, with a mane and slender legs, and he is said to root and 
wallow in a truly pig-like fashion. 
The home of the Texas peccary is low river bottoms with 
dense thickets and overgrown swamps. Here he may be found 
singly or in small droves feeding on the acorns, pecans and wal- 
nuts or grubbing up roots. Spots which are particularly fre- 
quented by them usually smell strongly of the peculiar skunk-like 
odor which they emit. 
Whatever there may be in the stories of the fierceness o 
the South American peccaries, our species seems to be a harmless 
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