Learn about: Peccaries!
- Caleb Venturo
- Mar 21, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
The collared peccary is a pig-like mammal that lives in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. It grows to 40 in. and weighs up to 65 lbs. Peccaries run at up to 25 mph but will defend themselves with their tusks if you corner them. A peccary’s diet includes plants, invertebrates, frogs, lizards, mice, birds, and snakes. Peccaries can usually be found in rocky canyons, brushy deserts, and wastelands. They travel in herds of 6-30 animals. When we were in Big Bend, Texas, we saw a lot of peccaries.
God must love us a lot to give us creatures like peccaries!
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Artwork by Caleb Venturo
Information from: Whitaker, John O., Jr. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1980.
