FLUSHING, N.Y. - (CBSNewYork) - Visitors are going hog-wild for a new species at the Queens Zoo. The Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo is now home to a trio of Chacoan peccaries, a ...

Watch this family of collared peccaries at their favorite muddy wallow in the Amazon rainforest. It's a drinking space they've tailor-made with their relentless snuffling and plodding of the wet ...

PIX Now 06:32. SAN JOSE – The Happy Hollow Park and Zoo has welcomed four new snorting members to its zoo family—the pig-like endangered Chacoan peccaries.

Beyond the peccaries, another South American mammal — a three-banded armadillo — also was born a month ago at the zoo. It’s the third time that the zoo has successfully bred the shy creatures.

That's where three new petite peccaries made their adorable entrance earlier in May. The trio of tiny ungulates was born to Uno, their mother, and Maury, their dad.

Peccaries are like pigs: They wallow. In the Peruvian rain forest, those mud puddles are wildlife magnets. This camera trap photo shows a peccary in a wallow in Manú National Park, Peru.

Sushi for peccaries? Date: April 29, 2013 Source: Wildlife Conservation Society Summary: It turns out the white-lipped peccary —- a piglike animal from Central and South America —- will settle ...

Peccaries eat beans, fruits, roots, tubers, insects and small vertebrates. In areas of human presence they also consume crops and ornamental plants, such as tulips and other garden plants.