Giant Forest Peccary

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The Giant Forest Peccary is a possible fourth species of peccary, discovered in Brazil in 2004. The animal was uncovered by a team including German natural history filmmaker Lothar Frenz and Dutch naturalist Marc Van Roosmalen. Frenz claims the species' colour and behaviour were different to known species, and it was bigger, at around 40kg in weight, and 1.3m in length.

Unfortunately the animal was not observed for long, as local villagers killed and ate it.

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New mammal discovered in South America - and eaten

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