What is the maximal age a Collared peccary reaches?
An adult Collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) usually gets as old as 24.42 years.
Collared peccarys are around 144 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 618 grams (1.36 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). As a member of the Tayassuidae family (genus: Pecari), a Collared peccary caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) is a species of mammal in the family Tayassuidae found in North, Central, and South America. They are commonly referred to as javelina, saíno, or báquiro, although these terms are also used to describe other species in the family. The species is also known as the musk hog. In Trinidad, it is colloquially known as quenk.Although somewhat related to the pigs and frequently referred to as one, this species and the other peccaries are no longer classified in the pig family, Suidae.
Animals of the same family as a Collared peccary
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Tayassuidae):
- White-lipped peccary becoming 21 years old
- Chacoan peccary becoming 9 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Collared peccary
With an average age of 24.42 years, Collared peccary are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Red-shanked douc usually reaching 25 years
- Cotton-top tamarin usually reaching 23.08 years
- Guatemalan black howler usually reaching 20 years
- Scimitar oryx usually reaching 20.42 years
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 23 years
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 23.83 years
- Nilgai usually reaching 21.67 years
- Egyptian mongoose usually reaching 20 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat usually reaching 21.17 years
- Chamois usually reaching 22 years
Animals with the same number of babies Collared peccary
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Sambar deer
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat
- Herbert River ringtail possum
- Handley’s tailless bat
- Goitered gazelle
- Purple-faced langur
- Scaly-tailed possum
- Bush vlei rat
- Puna mouse
- Indian flying fox
Weighting as much as Collared peccary
A fully grown Collared peccary reaches around 21.19 kg (46.71 lbs). So do these animals:
- Ogilby’s duiker weighting 18.29 kilos (40.32 lbs) on average
- Oribi weighting 17.16 kilos (37.83 lbs) on average
- Eurasian beaver weighting 19 kilos (41.89 lbs) on average
- Cameroon clawless otter weighting 21.6 kilos (47.62 lbs) on average
- Thomson’s gazelle weighting 22.91 kilos (50.51 lbs) on average
- Olive baboon weighting 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs) on average
- Tufted deer weighting 23.04 kilos (50.79 lbs) on average
- Rhim gazelle weighting 24.47 kilos (53.95 lbs) on average
- Black wallaroo weighting 17 kilos (37.48 lbs) on average
- North American beaver weighting 18.11 kilos (39.93 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Collared peccary
Those animals grow as big as a Collared peccary:
- Chinese mountain cat with 78.6 cm (2′ 7″)
- Japanese macaque with 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Black musk deer with 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- White-bellied duiker with 94 cm (3′ 2″)
- Chimpanzee with 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- North American beaver with 75.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- North American porcupine with 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Gray brocket with 91.8 cm (3′ 1″)
- Bornean orangutan with 89 cm (3′ 0″)