The use of automatic feed barrel with grain corn as a methodology to mark, recapture and management of white-lipped pecaries (Tayassu pecari) reintroduced on a Savanna area located at Mato Grosso do Sul State was tested. Using this technique we could compare the weight gain managing animals on extensive (freedom on the area) and semi-extensive systems (restricted to a 15ha area), and examine reproductive biology aspects of this specie. The management of white-lipped peccaries on the extensive system provided a greater weight gain to the animals. The automatic feed barrel with grain corn showed to be efficient to attract and aggregate the white-lipped peccaries but also provided supplemental energy. Using the mark and recapture method we could note that this animals reproduce all over the year, breeding 1,57 pig-lets/female/parturition, with the proportion between sex of 50%. Gross productivity was 1,4 and gross fecundity = 0,4. The adoption of extensive systems to manage white-lipped peccaries could be a solution to sustainable exploration of this specie at places where this resource is explored as a subsistence source through illegal hunting.
white-lipped peccaries; Tayassu pecari; wild animal; management; extensive and semi-extensive system; reproduction
