Collared Peccary Photos
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- Javelina rarely travel alone. A solitary beast is a rogue, ousted from the herd for some reason. After checking me out for weeks, this one we named Joaquin came by every 2-3 days for a tiny snack of crushed saltines. Javelina are not dangerous unless they or their young are threatened. Joaquin came to the call "Here boy!"
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- A herd of javelina is usually made up of 10-25 indivuduals in these parts.
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- Being nocturnal allows javelina to sneak into the neighbors' yard to gather fallen peaches and apricots before dawn.
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- While it's questionable whether encroaching on wildlife habitat justifies supplementing their forage, I will not deny any creature water in the desert. Javelina here take a long drink.
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- Javelina have very thin legs–all the better to run fast with!
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- Spring couple.
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- Going bravely where no collared peccary has gone before.
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- Javelina browsing the yard while fragrances of Thanksgiving dinner filled the neighborhood.
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- Notice how narrow javelina are from the front. From the side, they look huge. Actually they usually weigh only 35-45 pounds.
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- Javelina are nocturnal; though, they are occasionally active in the daytime.
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- Collared Peccary strolling across the front yard.
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- Javelina are primarily vegetarians, though they do eat grubs, insects and small opportunistic bits of meat (scraps people throw out).
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- Not afraid to walk right up to the door. (Is he carrying a vacuum cleaner?)
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- Javelina eating out of my hand.
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- Javelina eating out of my hand.
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- Joaquin's favorite food (besides birdseed which I never offered him) was saltines.
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- Javelina and very protective of their young.
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- Never, ever get between any herd member and javelina young.
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- One of the best things about the dustings of snow we get at 4300 ft. elevation is discerning by their tracks who's been around. Javelina make tracks similar to those of deer, but more blunt, not pointy, on the forward going end.
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- A face anyone could love. Adolescent rogue javelina.
Collared peccary photographs taken in my yard in Sedona, Arizona.
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