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For quite a period of time now, I have been trying to get a good picture of the javelina, or "Picari tajacu". 
While other people seem to complain about these animals rummaging through their garbage on a daily basis, I never get to see them. And then, every time I go to the desert museum, they are most often just sleeping under some of the walking bridges and never seem to be up and walking around. So I just got this shot of one as it was lying down. Trust me, its not dead, just a lazy pig.

With their flat snout, and their behaviors, to me, they more closely resembles a pig than anything else. But I have read and been told that they are not actually in the pig family at all. But they are suppose to be a type of peccary or some other kind of mix up on the evolutionary ladder. 

Yeah, whatever. It looks like a hairy pig to me.

And smells like on too!

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