BRAZIL’S FAUNA
(Page prepared by a nature’s observer)

Peccaries (tayassuidae)

    In this family there are two genus (Tayassu and Cataginus) with three species, that occur since The USA Southeast, up the central region of Argentina.

Catagonus wagneri; Chacoan peccary that occurs at Bolivia Southeast , Paraguay and North Argentina;
Tayassu tajacu; occurs in all Brazil;
Tayassu pecari; occurs in all Brazil.

        The peccaries from the genus Tayassu are distributed from all Brazil in forested or closed areas.
    They walk in bands, and Tayassu pecari can form groups with a lot of elements, being in these cases afraid inclusive by the biggest felines as jaguars and cougars.
PS: At the Pantanal Matogrossense there is a specie of pig (Sus sp) that is a domestic pig which was brought by the Portuguese colonizers and that were abandoned while the Paraguay War was occurring, and than the have become wild.
    They are not part of the Brazilian native fauna, but its physical and behavior characteristics are from a totally wild animal. They are hunt by the people who lives at Pantanal Matogrossense for feeding.
     It is a local costume taking young and castrating them, and then they are immediately free, and so in the future they will be fat, slow and with good quantity of protein.