Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 12/Answers/Question 11

spacecraft
After much fruitless searching, I came across Luna- perhaps this is about spacecraft? AndyZ 15:16, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * A spacecraft won't help you here. -- Ravn 19:10, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Clues
Number two sounds like a big dog. - Dog's sound, breed of dog?... Number five is named after a servant of João II. ' The king said "I'm the lord of lords, not the server of servants." No idea about that one. Number ten is named like a device mirroring the sky. - Sea? Or Mirror? 'Like'could be Sea - C. Which animal gives its name to number thirty? - I don't know. - Ghelae 12:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Toucan
I get the following from List of nearest galaxies:
 * 2 Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy -- Canis Major meaning "Big Dog"
 * 5 Large Magellanic Cloud -- which is named after Ferdinand Magellan, who was a servant of Joao II
 * 10 Sextans Dwarf Galaxy -- named after the constellation Sextans, which is latin for sextant, a device for making celestial measurements
 * 30 Tucana Dwarf Galaxy -- named for the constellation Tucana, the Toucan

So the animal in question is the Toucan.

And I, too, have eaten a Milky Way or two in my time.

I found the above by searching on "Canis Major" +2. List of nearest galaxies was the third item in the search results. Zoicon5 17:20, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Congratulation. Perfect answer. -- Ravn 18:06, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, well done. Good thing this was not asked a few weeks ago: the Virgo Stellar Stream has not been known about for long - it was only added to the list on 15 January! -- ALoan (Talk) 18:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)