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Collared Peccary (Pecari tajacu)
These little piggies… are not quite piggies, actually.
While the Collared Peccary or Javelina closely resembles European pigs, the two species belong to completely separate families. The New World Peccaries diverged from Old World Pigs long ago, developing similar strategies and anatomy on distant, separate continents.
Collared Peccaries live in family groups of up to 30 members, foraging primarily after dark in the summer, but switching to a diurnal lifestyle in the winter. They take life slow for the most part, resting in territorial mud wallows, sleeping in burrows, and eating just about everything from seeds and pods to grubs and bird eggs.
In the desert southwest where water is scarce, however, Collared Peccaries fill up on juicy, but well-defended fare. They barely wince at the spines of prickly pear cactus, shredding the cactus pads with their teeth and slurping up the flesh and moisture.
photograph by wplynn on Flickr CC
I came out here to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked right now
Cardassian bedtime stories for your 2-year old
Mira was of the opinion that Teval should just read stories to the child, but Teval saw no harm in reading tech manuals as if they were stories. And truly, they were when he was the one reading them aloud, caring to make different voices to differentiate the different disruptors – something more guttural for the Klingon, more haughty and high-pitched for the Romulan (because Teval imagined them to have high-pitched voice because of their pointed ears – in Kardasi, the adjective to describe such sharpness was the same), and he gave the Federation a scheming, cunning whispering voice, because he’d always imagined them to be very deceiving like that, beyond the upfront facade they offered. Backstabbing whores, that was what they were, he explained to Izemir.
— the adjective is irpeki, for high-pitched, piercing, pointy things. Aliens count as things.
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