If it runs in right at the heads of the animals, the probabilities are that it will get killed; and, as a rule, even two good-sized hounds cannot kill a peccary, though it is no larger than either of them.

However, a wary, resolute, hard-biting dog of good size speedily gets accustomed to the chase, and can kill a peccary single-handed, seizing it from behind and worrying it to death, or watching its chance and grabbing it by the back of the neck where it joins the head.
Peccaries have delicately moulded short legs, and their feet are small, the tracks looking peculiarly dainty in consequence.

Hence, they do not swim well, though they take to the water if necessary.

They feed on roots, prickly pears, nuts, insects, lizards, etc.

They usually keep entirely separate from the droves of half-wild swine that are so often found in the same neighborhoods; but in one case, on this very ranch where I was staying a peccary deliberately joined a party of nine pigs and associated with them.