Pigs may have a negative reputation, but they play a vital role in global agriculture, food production and even medical research.

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1. Around 60 per cent of the world’s two billion pigs live in China. 2. “Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals,” (Winston Churchill). 3. Piggy banks get their name from a ...

The pig dates back 40 million years to fossils which indicate that wild porcine animals roamed forests and swamps in Europe and Asia. Remains of the earliest known North American peccary, Perchoerus, ...

The truth, according to science, is that pigs are much smarter than most of us have ever credited; in some ways, about as ...