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‘The bludgeoning of piglets on concrete floors, the teeth clipping, the tail docking without pain relief, these are all practices that are permitted.’

A pig determined to change her destiny has experienced an extraordinary journey.

A recent review of existing research has resulted in a compilation of the high-level cognitive tasks that pigs have been able to accomplish including using a mirror and showing empathy.

The photo of a captured pig appearing to be smiling in the back of a police patrol car in Shelby Township, Michigan, has gone viral--possibly because it had just gone to the bathroom, leaving the seat a mess.

The nose of a certain pig in Jilin, China looks far different from what we typically see. The tiny piglet was born without a mouth, but it did however have a snout.

The Chinese New Year in 2014 is celebrated on Friday, Jan. 31, marking the beginning of the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac.

Ten genetically modified piglets were bred in southern China this year, and all of them emit a greenish glow in ultraviolet light.