🐃Collared peccary
El pecarí de collar, báquiro de collar o taitetú (Dicotyles tajacu), es una especie de mamífero de la familia Tayassuidae. Mide 50 cm en la cruz, de 70 a 110 cm de longitud y de 2 a 5 cm de cola. Posee pelaje de cerdas castaño-negruzcas y una mancha blanca como collar. Secreta un aceite con olor almizclado. Se distribuye desde el sur de Estados Unidos hasta el norte de Argentina. En México, se le encuentra prácticamente en todo el país con excepción de la península de Baja California. Habita en sabanas, montes xerófilos y desérticos, pastizales tropicales y subtropicales, montes bajos, pastizales inundados y bosques de hojas anchas tropicales y subtropicales; hasta los 3000 m s. n. m.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2011.
- Body mass
- 21 kg
- Body length
- 0.91 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 31 years
Everything we know about the Collared peccary
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass21 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 20 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length0.91 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass100 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan31 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 32 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length7.36 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity316 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation143 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 145 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter sizeabout 2COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range1.37 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density5.65 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l21 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Collared peccary yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyTayassuidae
- ›genusPecari
- ›speciesPecari tajacu
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- familyTayassuidae
- genusPecari
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderSuina
- familyTayassuidae
- genusPecari
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