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Comments on: Biologist 'discovers' scentless giant peccary

wtf? 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 11:03 GMT

Unhappy

Wtf is a peccary?

Why is Lester writing this?

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

What's going on?

ummm 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 11:24 GMT

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...

My peccary doesn't smell 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 11:24 GMT

Why, doesn't it have a nose?

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

Has anyone seen my jacket?

wtf is a peccary? I'll tell you. 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 11:33 GMT

It's a suid.

A Peccary 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 11:44 GMT

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

I couldn't resist... 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 12:57 GMT

Joke

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

anon delivers 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 13:14 GMT

anon always delivers

I still don't care though.

Oscar Wilde confusion. 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 14:30 GMT

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.

Mmmmm Peccary 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 15:23 GMT

Yea, but how do they taste?

Actually... 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 16:28 GMT

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...

Taste? 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 16:56 GMT

Alert

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

Mates? 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 17:00 GMT

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

Who needs mates like that?

Not to be confused 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 17:22 GMT

with the giant scentless pessary.

But how to you shove it in there? 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 17:57 GMT

IT Angle

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

Endangered species? 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 19:43 GMT

Coat

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

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

@ Nick Pettefar 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 21:10 GMT

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

Monkeys? 

Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 04:20 GMT

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?

Oh dear... 

Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 13:50 GMT

Coat

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

Taxi for one...

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