#peccary

[slopforhogs]

Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu/Pecari tajacu) “Javelina aka Collared Peccary” by Larry Lamsa, CC BY 2.0 (x)

[mammalianmammals]

Javelina aka Collared Peccary (Dicotyles tajacu), male, family Tayassuidae, Arizona, USA

photograph by Sheryl Hester

[robotblues]

Javelina

[inatungulates]

Collared peccary Dicotyles tajacu

Observed by ericcameron, CC BY-NC

[vintagewildlife]

Collared peccary By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

[renumuro]

[critter-creature-or-beast]

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Photo by Wing-Chi Poon, CC-SA

[arthistoryanimalia]

In love with this little guy and its toot-toot snoot 🥰

Peccary-form Ocarina Greater Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 300 BCE - 500 CE Marbella incised modeled clay with slip H 4 5/8 in, 11.75 cm; W: 2 3/4 in, 6.99 cm; D: 6 in, 15.24 cm Denver Art Museum 1995.787

UPDATE:

It has a cousin at Harvard Peabody Museum!

“Ceramic ocarina, zoomorphic, quadruped w/ tail, incised & engraved body, 4 playing holes”

(It’s another peccary)

10.8x12.5x6.1 cm (4 1/4 x 4 15/16 x 2 3/8 in)

Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

17-3-20/C8064

BTW, it’s interesting that they’re both oriented towards the player…these animal ocarinas were usually oriented to face outwards when played so that it looked like the animal was singing…but with these peccaries you had to blow into their snoots to make them toot 😂