pigs

     

Sus barbatus Sus bucculentus Sus cebifrons Sus celebensis Sus omestica Sus falconeri† Sus heureni Sus hysudricus† Sus oliveri Sus philippensis Sus salvanius Sus scrofa Sus strozzi† Sus timoriensis Sus verrucosus

Trivia about pigs

  • Give a squeal if you know that these mammals are used with dogs to hunt down truffles
  • Near the beginning of "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy falls into a pen full of these animals
  • Way before Ford, an assembly line was set up in Cincinnati in the 1800s to disassemble these animals
  • These farm animals "may fly, but they are very unlikely birds"
  • Albanian ones say hunk hunk; maybe it's the smell that makes French ones say groin groin while truffle hunting
  • Into the 1840s, sanitation on Wall Street was handled by thousands of these porcine wanderers
  • The tasty treats seen here are called these in blankets
  • Captain Link Hogthrob was the captain of the Swinetrek on the "Muppet show" sketches called these "in Space"
  • In 1846 Joseph Leidy discovered that the worm trichina is found in this animal