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Biologist 'discovers' scentless giant peccary

Dan

wtf? 

Unhappy

Wtf is a peccary?

Why is Lester writing this?

"16 years for keeping orphaned monkeys in a refuge"?

What's going on?

Christopher Rogers

ummm 

IT Angle

So basically as the rest of us find out about this species, the locals could tell ya what it tastes like? Talk about being one step ahead....they have the right to be more smug than Mac fanboys...

Nick Pettefar

My peccary doesn't smell 

Why, doesn't it have a nose?

If you crossed it with an armadillo, would you get a peccadillo?

Has anyone seen my jacket?

Sean Aaron

wtf is a peccary? I'll tell you. 

It's a suid.

Anonymous Coward

A Peccary 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccary

Anonymous Coward

I couldn't resist... 

Joke

"My peccary doesn't have a nose." "Really, how does he smell?" "He doesn't!"

Anonymous Coward

anon delivers 

anon always delivers

I still don't care though.

Anonymous Coward

Oscar Wilde confusion. 

Coat

" and the fact that it doesn't smell. "

Oscar Wilde was once on a train, sharing a compartment with a rather posh woman.

"Sir," she said, "You smell".

"No, madam," replied Oscar, "*You* smell. I /stink/".

So, this pessary, I mean peccary. Does it not smell, or does it not stink?

I've used the coat icon. It's not for me, it's for any followup who tries to make a joke about Oscar Wilde and a giant pecker.

Kenneth Chan

Mmmmm Peccary 

Yea, but how do they taste?

J

Actually... 

Happy

I should have written "similar" to wild pig (it's actually a different family, but I wanted to give an idea of what it looks like). Just to keep the pedants (like me) at bay...

Anonymous Coward

Taste? 

Alert

You have to ask? Chicken, of course....

George Brown

Mates? 

'It turns out to be their most hunted animal.'

Who needs mates like that?

Anonymous Coward

Not to be confused 

with the giant scentless pessary.

Anonymous Coward

But how to you shove it in there? 

IT Angle

Visions of a well lubricated yet scentless pig being inserted into cavities .. ahh El Reg delivers again!

Colin Sharples

Endangered species? 

Coat

I'm not surprised it's endangered if it lacks "rooting behaviour"...

[Sorry, that one only works in Oz/NZ]

Nick

@ Nick Pettefar 

Sorry, your impecable jacket has been burned, along with the armoire.

yeah, right.

Monkeys? 

He was keeping monkeys in cages? So that's the IT angle, is it? Why didn't you just say he was running a support desk for Microsoft?

Mike

Oh dear... 

Coat

Cross breed it with a banana and a Dachsund and you get a banana daccary?

Taxi for one...