How to Use peccary in a Sentence

peccary

noun

• Such big urban centers require lots of food, and the Mayans hunted deer, peccaries, and tapirs.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2018
• A half-dozen javelinas, a kind of peccary, scampered in the thick undergrowth.
  — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2019
• So does the white-lipped peccary, a shy pig that tends to disappear quickly when there’s hunting pressure.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• Also, almost every species of peccaries and wild pigs are endangered or have some kind of risk—the wild boar is the only one doing well.
  — National Geographic, 22 June 2018
• At others, peccaries, which are somewhat like wild pigs, have been taken.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• The hogs are considered an invasive species, much larger than their south Texas cousin the peccary, or javelina.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
• Giant plants that reduced us to the size of Lilliputians lined the path as our hike led us to a clearing where agoutis, flying wild turkeys and peccaries dazzled us with their acrobatics.
  — Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2020
• In the meantime, many lower- and middle-class households in Ceibal probably survived in part by hunting animals, like peccaries and deer, that came to forage in their grain fields.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2018
• The virus infects pigs, warthogs, European wild boar, American wild pigs, bush pigs, giant forest hogs and peccaries.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2019
• The goal is to ultimately improve conservation by learning where and how certain key species—like jaguars, peccaries, spider monkeys, and more—live in the forest.
  — National Geographic, 13 Apr. 2017
• Clearly the ancestors of Amahuacatherium did not wait for the Panama land bridge to close before shuffling across, nor did other prehistoric mammals such as tapirs and peccaries which are also found in these Late Miocene deposits.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2010
• Board a boat at Atalaya and cruise even deeper into the rainforest, on the lookout for monkeys, giant anteaters, tapirs, ocelots, armadillos, peccaries, caimans, and the numerous bird species that inhabit Manú National Park.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
• Feral hogs, whose rooting in soil increases tree growth and attracts bird flocks, are replacing ecological work done by extinct giant peccaries in North America.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
• An animal caring for a sick, injured, or dead individual of its own kind is referred to as epimeletic behavior, and besides humans and great apes, it’s been documented in elephants, peccaries, and orcas, among other species.
  — National Geographic, 19 June 2019

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024