Collared Peccary Brain & Nasal

Description

Collared Peccary Brain & Nasal Replica Endocast measures 7.1 x 2.3 x 2.4 inches. Collared Peccary Brain & Nasal Replica Endocast is museum quality polyurethane resin endocast. Made in USA. Our precise brain replica can be used as a teaching tool, museum brain exhibit, home décor brain, or office décor brain.

Peccaries measure between 3 to 4 feet in length and fully grown adults weigh between 44 – 88 pounds.

Peccary or Javelina (Tayassu tajacu) also known as Collared Peccary, are medium-sized animals that look similar to a wild boar. They have mainly short coarse salt and pepper colored hair, short legs, and a pig-like nose.

The hair around the neck and shoulder area is lighter in color giving it the look of a collar. Javelina have long, sharp canine teeth which protrude from the jaws about an inch. They have very small eyes and small ears.

Just like pigs, they only use the middle two digits of their hooves for walking. Their stomach is non-ruminating, although it has three chambers and is more complex than that of a pigs.

One major adaptation for survival is the fact that Peccaries live in large family groups. The average group size is 10 or less, but a few herds have known to number up to 53 animals. Each group defends a territory which includes their sleeping and feeding areas. They communicate with their own family group and other groups using sounds and smells.

Javelina live in desert washes, saguaro and palo verde forests, oak woodlands, and grasslands with mixed shrubs and cacti.

They can be found in the deserts of southwest Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southward through Mexico and Central America and into northern Argentina.

Javelina are classified as herbivores. They eat a variety of native plant foods such as agave, mesquite beans, prickly pear, as well as roots, tubers, fungi, and other green vegetation. However, if the opportunity presents itself, they will also eat lizards, eggs, and carrion.

In the wild, Javelina live to be about 10 years old although some live longer. Javelina in a zoological setting have been known to live over 20 years old.

Collared Peccary Facts:

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Suina
Family: Tayassuidae
Type genus: Tayassu
Synonyms: Dicotylidae