Template:Did you know nominations/White-lipped peccary
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 07:04, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
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White-lipped peccary
- ... that groups of the white-lipped peccary (pictured) can drive away jaguars with their screaming and clacking of teeth? Source: https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/peccary
Large groups of white-lipped peccaries have been known to counterattack a jaguar, unleashing alarm calls and teeth clashing to drive away the potential predator.
Improved to Good Article status by An anonymous username, not my real name (talk). Nominated by LordPeterII (talk) at 17:09, 20 September 2022 (UTC).
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Everything checks out, EarWig agrees no plagiarism. QPQ was done and already on main page.
Thanks for making this Good. I will be wishing the endangered little guys the best of luck. jengod (talk) 23:42, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
- @LordPeterII and Jengod: I see two conflicting lower-level sources: one says they crack their teeth, another says they only clash them. Is there a scholarly source to break the tie? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 23:23, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
- I presumed (perhaps wrongly!) that they were synonyms for an animalistic gnashing of teeth. See: https://www.dentalcare.com/en-us/ce-courses/ce485/history-of-bruxism I will look into further shortly and get back to you unless Peter replies first. jengod (talk) 23:30, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
- please do! theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 00:04, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
- I presumed (perhaps wrongly!) that they were synonyms for an animalistic gnashing of teeth. See: https://www.dentalcare.com/en-us/ce-courses/ce485/history-of-bruxism I will look into further shortly and get back to you unless Peter replies first. jengod (talk) 23:30, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
- Imma get you some science but looking around and watching this video Video on YouTube make it clear that either word is probably correct. Clicking and snapping are also used in various sources. In a completely fuzzy way I lean toward “clacking” but let me see if I can figure out the Official Answer. jengod (talk) 01:07, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
OK so (1) There’s a video on this page of peccaries bullying jaguars. After hearing it I’m very comfortable with using either clack or crack their teeth. I personally prefer “clack.”
https://massivesci.com/notes/jaguar-peccary-predator-prey-video/
(2) some peccary science:
Kiltie and Terborgh (1983) listed the vocalizations of T. pecari as: low, resonating moans made by foraging adults; strident barks and staccato clacking of jaws during squabbles; raspy bleats made by both adults and juveniles; and sharp, deep barks as alarm calls by adults. Mayer and Brandt (1982) reported that white-lipped peccaries in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay produce a multiple-impact tooth chatter or clacking, but did not present counts of the number of impacts per group of tooth clicks. Sowls (1984) classified the sounds made by this species as (1) togetherness vocalizations: low rumbles, single or multiple loud barks, tooth clickings, and whines or complaining calls; and (2) aggressive vocalizations: grumblings (a blend of many sounds) and single or multiple tooth clicks
Tayassu pecari. By John .J Mayer and Ralph M. Wetzel Published 12 August 1987 by The American Society of Mammalogists http://www.bio-nica.info/Mammalia/Tayassu_pecari.pdf
“peccaries make a characteristic clacking sound with their teeth” Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine, Volume 8. 2015 : 568–584. Published online 2014 Jun 25. doi: 10.1016/B978-1-4557-7397-8.00058-X PMCID: PMC7152257 Meg Sutherland-Smith
Like other peccaries, their vocal repertoire includes low-frequency barking, growling, moaning, high-pitched squealing, and tooth clacking. As groups forage and move through the understory, individuals emit soft vocalizations, facilitating group coherence. Alarm calls and teeth clashing are emitted when threats are detected; as multiple individuals emit alarm calls a threshold is reached at which point the whole group may take off, either together or scattering in subgroups, creating a confusing cacophony of sound and movement.
Tayassu pecari (Link, 1795) in GBIF Secretariat (2021). Global Biodiversity Information Facility Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-10-11.
IN CONCLUSION, IMHO: crack or clash? the tiebreaker should be the portmanteau, which also happens to be scientifically accurate: clack
This was fun. Cheers, jengod (talk) 01:38, 11 October 2022 (UTC)