LAST UP: #5-seed MANED WOLF (Chrysocyon brachyurus) VS. #4-seed CHACOAN PECCARY (Parachoerus [Catagonus] wagneri) #2025MMM - ThreadSky

tcastanea.bsky.social • 1 day ago

LAST UP: #5-seed MANED WOLF (Chrysocyon brachyurus) VS. #4-seed CHACOAN PECCARY (Parachoerus [Catagonus] wagneri) #2025MMM

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shaunahaymond.bsky.social•1 day ago

After experiencing a midnight melee with a squadron of snorting swine outside my tent, I know better than to underestimate a peccary! #2025MMM

mrsh-sci.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh thank goodness it’s almost over, my nerves can’t take much more #2025MMM

mutualismecology.bsky.social•1 day ago

I want to pet that wolf's snoot so bad!

tcastanea.bsky.social•1 day ago

And give it a good scruffin’ #2025MMM

tcastanea.bsky.social•1 day ago

MANED WOLF has a dispersed social system that is mostly solitary. To communicate, they rely on signals that carry over long distances to avoid conflicts with each other, eg, barking, visual threat displays & "locus-specific defecation" AKA pooping to define their territory (Klieman 1972) #2025MMM

tcastanea.bsky.social•1 day ago

CHACOAN PECCARY "usually lives in groups with an average size of 4.5 individuals, although there are reports of solitary individuals." (Camino etal 2022). Females usually have 1-2 babies per year. Infants are accepted & well tolerated by the entire group, including adult males (Handen 1991) #2025MMM

tcastanea.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's late afternoon in the Gran Chaco & PECCARY is out searching for fruits. It's unusual for a mammal living in hot areas of South America to forage when temps are high but #PeccaryGonnaPeccary #2025MMM https://ielc.libguides.com/sdzg/factsheets/chacoanpeccary

tcastanea.bsky.social•1 day ago

MEANWHILE, in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia MANED WOLF is "rested within hollows under tall, dense clumps of bunchgrasses" during the hottest part of the day (Rocha etal 2017) #2025MMM https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyw171

tcastanea.bsky.social•1 day ago

MANED WOLF takes a big yawn that #MMMagics him to a patch of prickly pear cactus, where PECCARY is chowing down on perfect ripe fruits (Arenas & Scarpa 2007) #2025MMM https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227754470_Edible_Wild_Plants_of_the_Chorote_Indians_Gran_Chaco_Argentina

tcastanea.bsky.social•1 day ago

PECCARY pauses & stares hard at WOLF. She sways her head, grunts loudly at the interloper then turns her head with mouth agape to show her tusks to make it clear these fruits are hers! (Bissonette 1982) #2025MMM