View from the North 40: So ... pigs are man's best friend now?

James “Mac” McIntyre of Florida went to the South Pacific to find a pig, but got a dog, too — well, kind of.

Huffington Post reports that McIntyre, a trained zoologist, has been many things in his life, a vet tech on a cattle ranch, a zookeeper, a high school biology teacher, a logger and a carpenter. But he hasn’t let any of that hold him back from pursuing his love of scientific researcher.

McIntyre told Huff-Po that it was his relentless passion to know things that drove him in 1993 to fly to Vanuatu, an archipelago west of Fiji, to find a study the elusive intersexual pigs. The pigs have b...