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• The Master of Light | |
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• Great Place to Hang | |
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• Extreme Elevations | |
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• A different day in Dixie | |
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• Seligman's Town Clown | |
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• Beady-eyed charmers | |
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• Kingston Summit: Across the Toiyabe Range | |
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• The Narrows of Lovell Wash |
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 PHOTOGRAPHY BY TOM AND PAT LEESON Beady-eyed charmers
STORY BY CARRIE MINER Javelinas, also known as collared peccaries, have been the brunt of a multitude of myths and misconceptions over the years. In the 1680s, naturalist Edward Tyson wrote that wounded "Mexican musk hogs" rally the assistance of other herd members to revenge the injury. Tyson also reported that they hunt "Špoysonous Serpents, and Toads; and having caught them, holding them with their fore feet, with a great deal of dexterity, with their teeth they strip the skin from the head to the Tayle, then greedily devour them." Creative tales like these make modern naturalists shudder at the misunderstanding of this passive vegetarian. Known to scientists as Tayassu tajacu, javelinas were first documented in the southern United States in the early 1800s by fur trappers traveling west. Due to the absence of javelina evidence at prehistoric excavations in the Southwest, scientists speculate the animals migrated, up from Mexico into what is now Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, in the mid-1700s. ...
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