Pig: Lazy and gluttonous? God knows I have a high IQ.

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This issue of Animal Science

We get closer to the talking pig in 60 seconds!

Dongdongmiao looked at a big white pig in the pigpen and couldn't help but make a joke.

Dongdong Meow: "Hey, all you do is eat and sleep, can you have some ambitions?"

The pig yawned and said, "Who said we don't have aspirations? My daily goal is to eat eight full meals and sleep ten full hours!"

Dongdongmeow: "Baton?! Aren't you afraid that you will be too full to walk?"

The pig tilted his ears and said, "It doesn't matter if I can't walk. The owner will carry me to be weighed anyway."

Dongdongmeow: "...You are right."

Pigs are one of the most inconspicuous yet important characters in the countryside.

Their rhythm of life is extremely simple: sleep, eat, sleep again, and eat again.

Don't underestimate their eating ability. A pig can easily eat several kilograms of feed a day.

Dongdong Cat asked the pig: "Are you a big eater or a lazy person?"

The pig raised his head confidently and said, "I'm the most leisurely one among the big eaters."

The piglet added: "Don't think we are lazy at ordinary times. We can catch bugs at critical moments. Even mice can't escape if they run into the pen."

Dongdongmiao was very surprised after hearing this: "So you can also do some small mouse catching business?"

However, pigs' laziness is not static.

In order to make their pigs free-range pigs and sell them at a good price, pig farmers in the village often take their pigs for "walks".

Before each meal, the pigs would obediently line up and run to the feed trough.

Dongdong Miao couldn't help but sigh: "You lazy people can still do fitness? This is unscientific!"

Pig: "This is called warming up before meals to increase appetite."

Popular Science Knowledge

1. Pigs have a keen sense of smell and can detect food underground.

Pigs have complex noses and a more sensitive sense of smell than dogs, allowing them to detect food underground, making them professional treasure hunters in some areas.

2. Pigs’ IQ ranks among the highest among livestock.

Pigs can not only remember routes and tasks, but also learn simple instructions and skills. Their learning ability and memory are beyond the imagination of many people, and they are representatives of smart animals.

3. Pigs grow fast and eat a lot.

Pigs can eat several kilograms of feed a day and grow very fast. In modern farming, by controlling diet and environment, pigs can reach their ideal weight in a short period of time.

Review expert: Zhang Niya, associate professor of the Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Huazhong Agricultural University

Produced by: Dongdongmeow