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Geographic Range

Food Habits

Reproduction

Management

Works Cited

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Geographic Range of Javelinas:

            Peccaries are found in Neartic and Neotropical environments.  

The fourteen subspecies are found ranging from northern Argentina,

parts of Central America, southern Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.  

Their distribution in Texas is restricted mainly to West Texas, and the 

brush land of the south unless put on game ranches elsewhere.  Little 

doubt exits that there are significant differences in the sizes of collared 

peccaries from different parts of their range (Sowls, 1997).  Texas and 

Arizona has documented larger body size than most of the other geographic 

areas.  Movement throughout javelinas geographic areas depends on many

factors.  For instance, land boundaries, wet or dry season and the vegetation

at the time of the two seasons.