Largest species of peccary

The largest species of peccary is the newly described giant peccary (Pecari maximus), native to the Brazilian Amazon rainforested region of the Rio Aripuana basin. Discovered by Amazon-based Dutch zoologist Dr Marc van Roosmalen, it is superficially similar to the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu), but is notably larger though slimmer, with much longer legs. It has a total length of just over 1 m (3 ft 3 in), a shoulder height of 0.85 m (33 in), and weighs around 40 kg (88 lb). Moreover, it is only thinly bristle-haired, with brown and white fur rather than dark blackish-grey. Until now, the largest peccary species was the Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri), discovered alive in 1974 after previously being known to science only from Ice Age fossil specimens.