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| Pigs like to bathe in water or mud to keep cool, and they actually prefer water to mud |
1. Out of 2 billion pigs in the world, only one is in Afghanistan.
2. Until the very end of 20th century they would feed pigs with cannabis in Bhutan.
3. Pigs have 44 teeth.
4. Pig skin is great for practicing tattoos, being similar to human skin.
5. Pigs have 4 toes on each hoof, but use only half of them to walk.
6. Pig is part of the Chinese zodiac, believed to bring fortune and happiness.
7. Not all pigs have curly tails
8. Pigs like being clean, never establishing toilet area close to where they lie and eat.
9. Pigs have a remarkable sense of smell and are used to locate truffles.
10. There are many documented stories of pigs that saved human lives.
11. Words pig, hog and swine are used regardless of gender.
12. Piglets respond to their names at age of 20 days.
13. Pigs were successfully used against Hannibal’s war elephants. A pig shrieking can freak out any elephant.
14. Pigs are not too much different from us genetically. Thus transplantation of pig heart valves is possible.
15. Words sucker, weaner, baconer, porker, chopper, sow, boar, piglet and stag all refer to pigs.
16. Sow’s pregnancy lasts 114 days and it can give birth to between 7 and 12 piglets, two times per year.
17. Pigs are quite intelligent and learn tricks faster than dogs.
18. Pigs have a vast field of vision, but can’t look up.
19. Pigs’ intelligence is inferior only to some apes, dolphins and elephants.
20. Pigs communicate with each other grunting.
21. There is a word to designate a litter of piglets – a farrow
22. A piglet weighs about 3 pounds (1.5 kg) at birth and two times more a week later.
23. Pigs have no sweat glands and roll around in the mud to lower their body temperature.
24. Pigs swim just fine and would eagerly prefer water to mud.
25. Pigs run at speed 11.5 mph (almost 20 km/h)
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