It would have been enough if all zoologist David Fraser had done was to blow the lid off vampire pigs. But he did it in verse.
Fraser’s article in the Canadian Journal of Animal Science, Mineral-Deficient Diets and the Pig’s Attraction to Blood: Implications for Tail-Biting--coincidentally, the title that Walt Whitman originally proposed for Song of Myself--begins thusly:
A growing pig will seldom quail
From chewing on a neighbor’s tail.
At first, this unendearing act
