A new study attributes the regular disappearance of white-lipped peccaries in South America to natural population cycles. White-lipped peccaries are a keystone species and ecosystem engineers whose ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A multinational team of scientists met to discuss the current status and future of the white-lipped peccary, a pig-like mammal that lives in ...

A collaborative study published in PLOS ONE, documents the periodic disappearance (and reappearance) of white-lipped peccaries in nine countries in South and Central America. The authors say the ...

While tracking white-lipped peccaries and gathering environmental data in forests that link Brazil's Pantanal and Cerrado biomes, a team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and a ...

(UPI) -- Researchers following the the white-lipped peccary were surprised to find themselves amid cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers thousands of years ago. Found in the forests of Brazil's ...

While tracking white-lipped peccaries and gathering environmental data in forests that link Brazil's Pantanal and Cerrado biomes, researchers discovered ancient cave drawings made by hunter-gatherer ...

White-lipped peccaries travel in large packs throughout the forest. The hairy, piglike creatures emit a distinctive musky smell that is not easy to forget, and they play a crucial role in their ...

Populations of white-lipped peccaries, a 'new world' pig-like species usually found throughout Central American tropical forests, are in freefall, new research finds. White-lipped peccaries have ...

Rain forests are rich in biodiversity and are home to many different plants and animals as well as indigenous communities. Humans, even those who don’t live in the rain forest, rely on it for ...

A new species of pig-like mammal called a peccary has been discovered in the southeastern Amazon region of Brazil, a scientist announced today. It is the largest peccary in the world, about the size ...

With forests depleted by development, the pig-like animals are disappearing rapidly, scientists have found in a new study. By Karen Weintraub White-lipped peccaries travel in large packs throughout ...