They're known as Javelina in the US and Mexico. I have relatives that lives in the French Guyana, border Brazil to the north. They've been hunting those hogs since they moved there from mainland France in 1986. Sounds like this Dutch scientist's discovery is 10+ years late.
Slightly enlarged it looks like a Collared Peccary minus the white collar, and with slightly longer limbs, but calling a 100 lb. Peccary a "giant" sounds silly to me.
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