peccary

How To Use peccary In A Sentence

• I went dancing instead, and pursued the peccary with pardine limers. The Shadow of the Torturer
• The peccary nudged Neil's legs, fretting to be let into the garden, nostrils scenting a treasure of insects in the damp earth. RUSHING TO PARADISE
• He said it was a great hunting-place for the Indians in the Fall of the year, and that they came there to hunt the peccary, which is, as you know, a kind of wild boar, and whose flesh is very good eating. Lost in the Backwoods
• We also felt the furs of an opossum (soft) and collared peccary, also known as a javelina (stiff and bristly). Statesman - AP Sports
• It and the peccary are the only two Pachydermata, or thick-skinned animals, indigenous to the southern continent. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
• Some notable mammals are white‑tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus, white‑lipped peccary Tayassu pecary, collared peccary Tayassu tajacu, Central American tapir Tapirus bairdii (VU), white‑face monkey Cebus capucinus and spider monkey Ateles geoffroyi, howler monkey Alouatta palliata, collared anteater Tamandua tetradactyla, jaguar Panthera onca (VU), margay Felis wiedii (VU), jaguarundi F. yagouaroundi and ocelot F. pardalis (VU). Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
• The collared peccary, or javelina, is synonymous with the Rio Grande country of South Texas, but they thrive across portions of the Hill Country and west Texas, too. Where to Hunt in Texas: Deer, Doves, Turkeys, Hogs, Ducks, Javelina
• He paces the bow, cramped as it is, like the caged ocelot or the little peccary leashed to a cleat.
• The Chacoan peccary is specialised for life in semiarid forests and steppes. Meet peccary # 4
• It cannot be swallowed whole, but some animals, such as the paca or the peccary, are able to open the seed with their teeth.