Chacoan peccary  (Catagonus wagneri)

Range

Chacoan peccaries are patchily distributed over a total known range of approximately 140,000 km², in central South America, extending from western Paraguay and south-eastern Bolivia to northern Argentina (4).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Inhabits the enormous flat plain of the Gran Chaco, which is characterised by semi-arid thorn forests, savannah plains and marshes are found, and where temperatures are high and rainfall is low (4).

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