WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Sedgwick County Zoo (SCZ) is morning the loss of Buck, the zoo’s eldest male Chacoan Peccary (pronounced as cha-koe-in peck-uh-ree), who died Sunday. According to the SCZ, ...

The Salisbury Zoo announced the arrival of a herd of five Chacoan peccaries on Thursday, the first time this endangered ...

Yes. You've correctly named the Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri). The Chacoan peccary looks a lot like a big, hairy pig. And it grunts and snorts like a pig, too. Yet while the peccary shares a ...

As the Salisbury Zoo gets ready to celebrate with multiple Rocking Around the Zoo events, it's also welcoming a herd of ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The Hattiesburg Zoo recently welcomed two new globally endangered mammals to its collection of animals. The Chacoan peccary is found in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3)—Dickerson Park Zoo’s animal care staff welcomed the arrival of three lesser kudus and a Chacoan peccary. Kudu are bushland antelopes native to East Africa.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - The Potawatomi Zoo welcomed a pair of Chacoan peccary babies last week! The Chacoan peccary is a critically endangered species. Staff members at the zoo say Tapo and Salt are ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Baby animals have taken over the Los Angeles Zoo, and they are ready for their close-up! Two endangered Chacoan peccary piglets and two Sichuan Takin calves are now available for ...

The Chacaon peccary, the newest member of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Queens Zoo. Photo by: Julie Larson Maher. The Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri) was only known from fossils and thought ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In less then one week last month, four Chacoan peccaries were born at ...

The Chacoan peccary looks a lot like a big, hairy pig. And it grunts and snorts like a pig, too. Yet while the peccary shares a common ancestry with the pig, the two animals are very different, both ...