A new study documents large-scale white-lipped peccary disappearances and population cycling across their range in Latin America. A collaborative study published in the journal PLOS ONE documents the periodic disappearance (and reappearance) of white-lipped peccaries in nine South and Central Ameri
White-lipped peccaries are pig-like hoofed animals native to Central and South American tropical forests. They form enormous herds of up to hundreds of animals and are very social creatures. Researchers from Mexico to the Amazon have been puzzled by the unexpected disappearance of vast populations of white-lipped peccaries, as well as accounts of past disappearances and reappearances.
The ground-breaking study, which relies on collaboration and detective work to document 43 different disappearances at 38 sites in nine countries, also incorporates 88 years of commercial and subsistence harvest data from the Amazon.
The lead author of the study, Dr.
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