Javelinas Searching For Sweet Snacks, Pumpkins This Halloween

By Steve Shadley
Published: Friday, October 28, 2016 - 4:30pm
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Javelina are also known as collared peccaries.

Trick-or-Treaters won’t be alone in the search for sweet snacks this Halloween.

Here’s a warning: Anyone who decorates the outside of their home with real pumpkins might be visited by wild animals in search of food.   We liked this story so much that we wanted to celebrate Halloween by dressing up in our costumes and listening again to this story …

As Steve Shadley reported these “bumps in the night” aren’t just your two-legged neighborhood rascals.

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