Did you know?
π· Pigs communicate constantly with one another.
π· Pigs appear to have a good sense of direction and have found their way home over great distances.
π· Pigs do not “eat like pigs” or “pig out.” They prefer to eat slowly and savor their food.
π· Pigs are clean animals. They will be careful not to soil the area where they sleep or eat. Pigs don’t “sweat like pigs”; they are unable to sweat. They like to bathe in water or mud to keep cool, and they actually prefer water to mud.
π· Pigs have a tremendous sense of smell.
π· Winston Churchill famously said that “Dogs look up to man. Cats look down to man. Pigs look us straight in the eye and see an equal.”
π· The pig is the last of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. The pig is seen to represent, fortune, honesty, happiness and virility.
π· Pigs have 15,000 taste buds! Humans have 9,000.
π· An adult pig can run up to 11 miles per hour.
π· Pigs drink up to 14 gallons of water every day.
π· There are about 2 billion pigs on earth!
π· Pigs live on every continent except for Antarctica.
π· Pigs have 4 toes on each foot but they only walk on 2.
π· China has the most domesticated pigs in the world! The United States is 2nd.
π· People with allergies sometimes have pigs as pets because they have hair not fur and they do not shed.
π· Pigs are easily trained to walk on a leash, use a litter box and do tricks.
π· In Denmark there twice as many pigs as people!
π· Wild pigs are one of the most destructive animals in America causing more than $400mil damage a year in TX alone.
π· There is a species of pig called “Mangalitsa” which has wool on it which resembles that of a sheep
π· Male pigs raised for pork are castrated before puberty in order to prevent naturally occurring substances from appearing in the meat that causes unpleasant odors when cooked
π· In 1977, the band Pink Floyd tied a giant inflatable pig to a power station as a publicity stunt. The pig broke free and floated over Heathrow Airport, where all flights had to be grounded to avoid collisions with the pig
π· Around 20 million years ago, 7-foot tall, 2000 lb pigs roamed the earth
π· Pigs are immune to snake venom
π· When a domestic pig gets out into the wild, it will revert to a wild state in a matter of months, growing tusks, a hairy coat and becoming more aggressive
π· Female pigs were used to hunt truffles as they are attracted to their smell, which resembles that of a male pig’s sex hormones. The use of pigs to hunt truffle was banned in Italy in 1985 as they tend to damage the truffles while hunting.
π· For five centuries pigs could be tried and convicted of crimes in Europe. In some cases, the animals had lawyers working in their defense