Stunned motorists had to swerve to avoid an unusual road hog - a mother pig who decided to feed her piglets in the middle of a carriageway. The sow stopped in the centre of the busy country road while all nine of her offspring began to suckle. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
Undercover animal activists have filmed horrific scenes of cruelty to farm pigs. The incidents include workers slamming piglets on floors and leaving them still wriggling to die, beating animals to death with metal rods and inserting rods into sows' hindquarters. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 28 comments edit related share plime.com |
A pig genetically modified in China to make it glow has given birth to fluorescent piglets, proving such changes can be inherited. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share science |
Berlin's Tierpark (that translates to "animal park," kids) welcomed 13 Chinese Meishan piglets on Sunday. The Meishan breed, not surprisingly, is known for its wrinkled skin and long ears. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
The birth of fluorescent piglets proves that cloned pigs are fertile and they can pass their genes to their offspring picked by maxriter 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share science |
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A GOLD Coast radio station could face action from the RSPCA after attempting to make a piglet fly using helium balloons. The RSPCA was inundated with complaints from the public and listeners after the Gold FM breakfast crew tied up to 200 helium balloons to the animal. 2 comments edit related share weird*Les Nessman was unavailable for comment* picked by kakana 6 months ago |
Slideshow of cute mini-pigs. Awwww! picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
A leading animal rights group criticised Egypt on Monday for using 'shocking and cruel' methods to slaughter the country's pigs over swine flu fears, responding to a YouTube video that showed men skewering squealing piglets with large kitchen knives and hitting others with crowbars. 0 comments edit related share plime.comUpdate to this story picked by bingo 7 months ago |
We've all seen the tigress who adopted the piglets. There are a number of other animals whose maternal instincts overrode their more animalistic instincts. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago 13 comments edit related share weird |