Editing Peccary (section)

==Domestication==

Peccaries bear a familial resemblance to true pigs due to their common ancestry, and are in the same suborder as swine ([[Suina]]). They have been present in South America since prehistoric times.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gongora |first1=J. |last2=Moran |first2=C. |title=Nuclear and mitochondrial evolutionary analyses of Collared, White-lipped, and Chacoan peccaries (Tayassuidae) |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |date=2005 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=181–189 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2004.08.021|pmid=15579391 |bibcode=2005MolPE..34..181G }}</ref> The earliest scientific description of peccaries in the New World is in [[Brazil]] in 1547 and referred to them as "wild pigs".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Donkin |first1=R.A. |title=The Peccary -- With Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |date=1985 |volume=75 |issue=5 |page=3|doi= 10.2307/1006340|jstor=1006340 }}</ref>

It has been documented that peccaries were tamed, penned, and raised for food and ritual purposes in the Yucatán, Panama, the southern Caribbean, and Colombia at the time of the [[Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire|Conquest]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Donkin |first1=R.A. |title=The Peccary -- With Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |date=1985 |volume=75 |issue=5 |page=30,35–39|doi= 10.2307/1006340|jstor=1006340 }}</ref> Archaeological remains of peccaries have been found in Mesoamerica from the Preclassic (or Formative) period up until immediately before Spanish contact.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Donkin |first1=R.A. |title=The Peccary -- With Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |date=1985 |volume=75 |issue=5 |page=29|doi= 10.2307/1006340|jstor=1006340 }}</ref> Specifically, peccary remains have been found at Early Formative Olmec civilization sites.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Venderwarker |first=Amber M. |url=https://archive.org/details/farminghuntingfi0000vand |title=Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World |date=2006 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=9780292726246 |location=Austin, Texas |pages=[https://archive.org/details/farminghuntingfi0000vand/page/125 125]–127, [https://archive.org/details/farminghuntingfi0000vand/page/131 131] |url-access=limited}}</ref>

The peccary is not readily suitable for modern captive breeding, lacking suitable characteristics for intensive or semi-intensive systems. Peccaries require a higher age before they are able to give birth ([[parturition]]) and have a tendency towards [[infanticide (zoology)|infanticide]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rushton |first1=Jonathan |last2=Viscarra |first2=Rommy |last3=Viscarra |first3=Cecilia |last4=Basset |first4=Frederick |last5=Baptista |first5=Rene |last6=Huallata |first6=Corsino |last7=Brown |first7=David |date=December 2004 |title=Captive breeding of wild species – a sceptical view of the prospects |url=https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/3294.pdf |journal=Wildlife Policy Briefing |issue=9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824094952/http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/3294.pdf |archive-date=2014-08-24}}</ref>