white-lipped peccaries

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  white-lipped peccary

  noun

  a brown or black peccary (Tayassu pecari ) with short, sharp tusks, found in a range of habitats, especially rainforests, in Central and South America, where it travels great distances in herds in pursuit of fruit, the chief component of its diet: due mostly to excessive hunting by poachers and deforestation, the species is listed as vulnerable.

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white-lipped peccaries

The white-lipped peccaries are found in all the forests of South America—from the Caribbean Sea to the Pampas of Buenos Ayres.

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey

The white-lipped peccaries also occur, but in the figures it is impossible to distinguish the species.

From Animal Figures in the Maya Codices by Alfred M. (Alfred Marston) Tozzer

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