A giant peccary, actually, but close enough. Anyway, I wonder if there will be interest in domesticating it because of its lack of smell?
Oh it smells all right.
It just doesn’t stink.
As anthropologist Marvin Harris pointed out in his books, your common domestic pig doesn’t really smell. They can’t sweat (and so no BO from that), but need to wallow in mud to regulate their body temperatures. They prefer clean mud (he claims), but will use what they have to (including feces) if they can’t get it. It beats dying of body temperature runaway, I guess.
My pig has no nose.
How does he smell?
Awful.
Pigs are actually pretty clean when it comes to barnyard animals. Given the choice they would rather beat the heat in a nice clean pool than in mud and poo, but they aren’t usually given the choice on a farm.
Also, unlike cows for instance, they tend to live by the credo “Don’t shit where you live”. Once again, given the choice, they will poo away from where they eat and sleep.