NATURALISTS CABINET. 



Manners, &c. 



upper jaw. The feet and hoofs are like those of 

 the common hog, but the animal has no tail. 



Peccaries aje very numerous in all parts of 

 South America, where they are frequently seen 

 in herds of several Hundreds together, grazing 

 among the woods. They seem partial to the 

 mountainous parts of the country, and subsist 

 upon wild fruits, roots and herbage. 



When unmolested, these animals appear inof- 

 fensive, but an attack is always resented; and 

 the females, when robbed of their young, become 

 perfectly infuriate. Upon these occasions the 

 whole herd unite and pursue the plunderer ; and 

 if he have the good fortune to elude their ven- 

 geance by climbing a tree, they will assemble 

 round the root and remain there for hours toge- 

 ther, their rough bristles standing erect, and their 

 eyes flaming with rage. 



The peccary may be tamed like the common 

 hog; and if taken young, they soon lose all their 

 native ferocity: but they always continue rude 

 and stupid, without exhibiting any remarkable 

 signs of attachment or docility, or even seeming 

 to know the hand that feeds them. They seldom 

 exert their voice ; but when alarmed or irritated 

 they have an abrupt angry manner of blowing ; 

 and when several of them h,appen to be fed in 

 common, they utter a kind of growl, stronger 

 and harsher than that of a hog. ', 



The flesh of the peccary though leaner and 



