Facts about pigs – Video Transcript

Did you know?

• Pigs communicate with one another using more than 20 different vocalizations!

• Pigs are clean animals, if given sufficient space, they will be careful not to soil the area where they sleep or eat.

• Sows will build nests from their surrounding environment.

• Piglets learn to run to their mother’s voices and to recognize their own names.

• Mother pigs sing to their young while nursing.

• Pigs intelligence has been measured as being higher than dogs and even three-year-old humans.

• Pigs have a good sense of direction and have found their way home over great distances.

• Pigs can run at speeds of up to 17 kilometers an hour

• Pigs are unable to sweat and so to keep cool they like to bathe in water or mud, preferring water to mud.

• Pigs are incredibly social, curious and highly intelligent animals who want to live just as much as we do.