Ossabaw island pigs

The Ossabaw Island pig is seen as a pest, a delicacy, and a medical miracle. We found out why.

Native British pig breeds, from the Tamworth to the Berkshire, beautiful animals, and tasty to boot: which is your favourite?

Auckland Island pigs scour the coastline for food. Due to their smaller stature compared to other breeds, the pigs are better candidates for xenotransplantation. Visual: New Zealand Department of ConservationThe animals evolved into ultra-resilient, disease-free predators while isolated on Auckland Island. The post New Zealand’s wild pigs could be a source of much-needed donor organs appeared first on Popular Science.

The rarest pig breed in the world is teetering on the brink of extinction, and the few people working to save it would love some help from anyone who enjoys the company of pigs, and a good slice or three of the tastiest bacon around. Not long from now, rare breeds enthusiast David Hughes will say goodbye to the last of his livestock, and he and wife Patsy will sail off into the sunset aboard their yacht Wharetutu, heading for a life on the seas around the coastline of the South Island. David…

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Their ability to store large amounts of body fat is similar to non-insulin-dependent diabetes in humans, making them a natural model for the disease.

A six-week-old Visayan warty pig plays king of the mountain atop of an adult pig at the San Diego Zoo on February 6, 2006. The piglet, along with two others, was born in the season’s first litter. The Visayan warty pig is critically endangered and is found only on two islands in the Philippines. The San Diego Zoo has been successful at reproducing this species and is working with other zoos to increase the population of warty pigs. (UPI Photo/Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo)

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