. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 52 Jifí MORAVEC & Wolfgang Böhme: Second Find of the Recently Discovered Amazonian Giant Peccary, Pécari maximus. Fig. 4. Live Pécari maximus from the type locaHty. Photograph L. Frenz. trees Bertholletia excelsa. The upper canopy closes at the height of 30^0 m. The densest understory is associated with moist depressions along forest brooks. 3. CONCLUSION The assumption by the discoverers of Pécari maximus that it might be more widely distributed than known so f
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 52 Jifí MORAVEC & Wolfgang Böhme: Second Find of the Recently Discovered Amazonian Giant Peccary, Pécari maximus. Fig. 4. Live Pécari maximus from the type locaHty. Photograph L. Frenz. trees Bertholletia excelsa. The upper canopy closes at the height of 30^0 m. The densest understory is associated with moist depressions along forest brooks. 3. CONCLUSION The assumption by the discoverers of Pécari maximus that it might be more widely distributed than known so far has been corroborated by the new, distant find of this species in NW Bolivia. As to its conservation status according to lUCN criteria, it must certainly be regarded as "data de- ficient". But possible severe threats have already been list- ed by VAN RoosMALEN et al. (2007). However, it could well serve as an impressive flagship species for protect- ing the entire interfluve range between Rio Madeira and Rio Tapajos which yielded several impressive new mam- mal discoveries and is certainly also full of other, still un- described vertebrate species. Therefore, we strongly sup- port the appeal by van Roosmalen et al. (2007) to encour- age UNESCO to urge the Brazilian and Bolivian govern- ments to declare the entire region a - frontier-crossing - World Heritage Site, including also the rain forest part of neighbouring Peru. Acknowledgements. We thank Lothar Frenz, Hamburg, for the permission to use a photograph of a live Pécari maximus spec- imen taken by him at the type locality in Brazil. The senior au- thor is indebted to James Aparicio, Collección BoHviana de Fau- na (CBF), La Paz, for continuing support during his field research trips to Bolivia. The work of JM was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, project MK00002327201. The junior author thanks his two mammological colleagues at ZFMK, Bonn, Rainer Hutterer and Gustav Peters, for
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