Food
White lipped peccaries are omnivores feeding on fruits, nuts, vegetation, and small amounts of animal matter. Their main predators are the jaguar, puma, and potentially boa constrictors. Since the white-lipped peccary relies heavily on fruit they travel a lot to where the fruit and other essential resources are located. The fruiting season dictates a lot of the peccary behavior. Fruit is more abundant in primary forests rather than secondary or coastal forests so population is more dense in these regions. There is generally a period of fruit shortage during the end of the wet season so the consumption of non-primary foods like leaves, stems, and animal parts is increased.
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