Caption Monkey 63: Swimming Pigs of the Caribbean

By Alex in Animals & Pets, Caption Monkey, Travel on Aug 25, 2009 at 7:37 am


Photo: Vince Lauro

Pigs may never fly, but they certainly can swim! Vince Lauro won National Geographic Traveler’s Great Outdoors Photo Contest with this awesome photo of the Caribbean swimming pig. From the Intelligent Travel blog:

As the first mate on a 118-foot motor yacht, Vince Lauro has the opportunity to continuously travel across the Caribbean. This photograph was taken near a small key famous for the "swimming pigs." A colony of pigs lives on the key, and they often swim near visiting boats. To capture this clear image Lauro said, "I had to lure this pig into an undisturbed area with its favorite food: fresh watermelon."

Link – Thanks Marilyn!

Now, on to the Neatorama and Hobotopia‘s Caption Monkey part of the post: funniest caption will win a custom black and white Monkey drawing by our favorite artist, Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.

Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please. You can enter as many as you can think of – just make ‘em funny! Be sure to visit Adam’s blog for inspiration. Good luck!

Update 8/26/09 – Adam has picked the winner! Congrats to Lisa G. who came up with this (very punny) gem: Oinkers aweigh!


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  1. RSMilward
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:47 am

    “Kermie, where are you? I’m coming, Kermie!”

  2. Melphistopheles
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:59 am

    “Whoever said “Never try to teach a pig to swim, it wastes your time and annoys the pig.” can bite me. This is great! Oh, wait. Sing? Not swim? You got me there. I’m tone deaf.”

  3. xan
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 8:11 am

    (aiming speargun) …and you said I’d never find any seafood that a Kansas girl like you would eat.

  5. burninglily
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:04 am

    Swimming the ocean blue in 1492.

  6. Brook
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:12 am

    One of the rarest of Caribbean pinnipeds, the pig-whale was nearly hunted to extinction by a southern U.S. expat named Bubba.

  7. OddNumber
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:18 am

    After escaping the oppressive agricultural oppression of Cuba, Rocky soon realized the US is NOT as close as the goat told him.

  8. OddNumber
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:21 am

    Newsflash: After release from solitary zoo confinement, lone Afghan pig exiled to Caribbean.

  9. peasey
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:33 am

    Boiling Hot Dogs: You’re Doing it Wrong!

  10. monoclemonkey
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:34 am

    the best liquid assets are pork bellies

  11. monoclemonkey
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:36 am

    A natural brine provides the best flavor, and you can never start too soon.

  12. CW 81
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:40 am

    “Yasmine thought this was the end until she saw Hasselhoff coming through the water to save her”

  13. Steven H.
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:45 am

    Swine flu? More like swine swim!

  14. Baltimore Jenkins
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:55 am

    “Well, we can’t always fly.”

  15. CreamTrumpet
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:57 am

    Well, you’ve heard of the doggy paddle, right?

  16. QuarterRoy00
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:57 am

    So this is how they make Bacon Vodka…

  17. CreamTrumpet
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:59 am

    Babe 3: Pig in the Caribbean

  18. CreamTrumpet
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:01 am

    We’re going to need a bigger boat…

  19. CreamTrumpet
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:04 am

    A swimming pig? What utter hogwash!

  20. Mowog
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:05 am

    “Don’t sweat it Morty all the sharks here keep kosher.”

  21. jj
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:12 am

    Well into his 5th daiquiri, an aged Hemingway lost his audience as he recounted getting dragged far out to sea by a Cuban Water Pig. “He was eighteen feet from snout to tail.”

  22. Mark B
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:22 am

    Thanks for the bailout bonus.

  23. MariV
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:25 am

    This little piggy went to market… in the Caribbean!

  24. MariV
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:27 am

    Singing:
    ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT,
    GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM,
    MERRILY, MERRILY, MERRILY, MERRILY
    LIFE IS BUT A DREAM…

  25. MariV
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Thinking: “… so this is easy as pie… just keep your nose up, paddle naturally and watch the style!”

  26. Bradford Holcombe
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:33 am

    You must swim before you can fly!

  27. Dirit
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:35 am

    They say this method of making salt pork is more humane but do you really need to fly him to Cabo San Lucas for Spring Break?

  28. Jimbo
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:37 am

    Even pigs need a vacation!

  29. Dirit
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:37 am

    If you wonder why this pig swims, just know that the guy on the jet ski is Anthony Bourdain.

  30. stucker
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:46 am

    What a Globe Trotter!

  31. stucker
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:48 am

    Well he took to it like a pig to water which was surprisingly well

  32. lancealbertson
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 11:00 am

    “Some pig” was okay, “humble” worked, but I wish Charlotte hadn’t written “triathlon” in her web!

  33. Dirit
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 11:12 am

    The Disney remake of “Deliverance”

  34. Dirit
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 11:21 am

    “Eeew gross, can’t wait to get back to my mud”

  36. Dirit
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 11:56 am

    It be EZ you sed

    Watermellonz growz in da water you sed

  37. e7c
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 12:17 pm

    Mr. and Mrs. Greenberg had to cancel their vacation plans after they learned that it was not kosher to swim in THE BAY OF PIGS!

  38. Christophe
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    Who pushed me overboard? I’m going to get the swine flu!

  39. CMKdesigns
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    No we cant fly but we can swim with the best of them

  40. andrewwhis
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    One less thing we can hold over the “other white meat”

  41. MarcellinaG
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Genetic engineering has ALMOST solved all the problems for those bacon-loving Kosher Jews of America. He’s a top dweller, and he’s seafood … but someone’s got to figure out how to fix the split hooves.

  42. Alec hosterman
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    Dogs have the doggy paddle, pigs have the piggy paddle.

  43. Alec hosterman
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    This little piggy went to the market and this little piggy went for a swim…”

  44. bigatybamm
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    I could have went to the market or I could have had roast beef, but no, I had to go wee wee wee all the way home.

  45. Chummy
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    “Phelps, you’re goin’ down….”

  46. Lisa G.
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    Oinkers aweigh!

  47. slim22
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    In a bewilder tone Charlotte proclaimed, “Oh Wilbur! Now you’ve really found yourself in the drink”.

  48. seekshelter
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    that’s the ugliest shrimp ever

  49. seekshelter
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    this is the pig for the Gaza zoo. its actually a painted up beach ball.

  50. Queen LaT'sa
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    …Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner…

  51. Queen LaT'sa
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    But I don’t want any old squirrel! I want a trained squirrel!

  52. sybann
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    I like my ham with pineapple.

    WHAT!? You all took the good ones. ;)

  53. Kevin Allen
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    From Walt Disney Pictures comes the incredible story of a curious little pig… trying to find his way home.

  54. Natalie Gilbert
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    “Goodness Marge; this aqua-aerobics is hard work. I’m gonna go under in a minute and get my barnet wet!”

  55. Kevin Allen
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    Wilson. Wilson! I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Wilson! Wilson, I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Wilson! I can’t.. Wilson! WILSON!

  56. Kevin Allen
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    Is anybody else wondering if the pig washed off the sand on his nose?

  57. Tanya
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    … POLO …

  59. Anon of Ibid
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    oops…. Anyway…

    Cue the Jaws Theme done as a series of oinks…

    “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…HAMHOCKS!

  60. Stalker
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    “ha! so pigs don’t fly, who said we’d never float?”

  61. Maxxx
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    … and so he said “I wish I was in a tropical paradise with a babe …”

  62. Maxxx
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    Ah, well, any pork in a storm.

  63. Anon of Ibid
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    JAWS…The Luau

  64. Stalker
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    R&D File #0061

    “Naturally salted Caribbean bacon”

  66. Chelsea
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    “they’re tryin to me! swim away!”

  68. Dirit
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:54 pm

    I’ve been working on these all day but i still can’t come up with better than “Oikers Away!!”

    Congrats Lisa G. Your Kung Fu is much powerful.

  69. Anon of Ibid
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:54 pm

    Go Go PIGZILLA!!

  70. Maxxx
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Why pigs have curly tails

  71. Stalker
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    where’s the big bad wolf when you need him? =)

  72. Stalker
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    aqua piggle!

    *squish

    *squish

    *squish

  73. Kevin Allen
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    If he stays out in the salt water long enough he’ll get pruny. And then I’ll be in the mood for jerky.

  74. Jiminy
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:08 pm

    Iz in yer pool. Peein up da waterz

  75. Maxxx
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    “Impervius!” cried Hairy Trotter, Hog-Waters latest pupil.

  76. Mambo
    Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:42 pm

    Ugh. When they said that they would give me a bath…

  77. Maxxx
    Aug 26th, 2009 at 1:26 am

    … and this little piggy went Wee wee.

  78. kweev
    Aug 26th, 2009 at 2:36 am

    Nirvana
    NeverRind

  80. Rick
    Aug 26th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    Babewatch: Pig in paradise

  81. Chaco
    Aug 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    In other news, Kate Gosselin went for a swim.

  82. Fran
    Aug 26th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Keep head up…Must not get hair wet. Must not get hair wet!

  84. Techien
    Aug 26th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    So jewish people can’t eat pork………what about seafood?

  85. Matt
    Aug 27th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    Where are the shank floaties when you need ‘em?

  86. e7c
    Aug 29th, 2009 at 7:56 am

    in retrospect I wish I had packed Tactical Bacon in my shipwreck survival kit instead of a live pig.

  87. e7c
    Aug 29th, 2009 at 8:00 am

    in the event of a shipwreck immediately toss your survival pig into the ocean so it will have that great brine taste by the time you swim to a deserted island.

  88. wilfbelf
    Aug 29th, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Young Pablo started swimming to dispel the rumour that swine flew.


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