Undertoad Friday Dec 23 10:54 AMDec 23, 2011: The swimming pigs of the Bahamas
On a tiny uninhabited island in the Bahamas called Big Majors Spot, there is a group of wild pigs. Nobody knows how they got there some decades ago -- was it a shipwreck? Or somebody setting them out to harvest them later? But there they are, and there's not much food on the island, so locals began boating out there and feeding the pigs.
The smart pigs realized that the sound of motors was the sound of food, and first pig to the food wins... so they learned to swim out to the boats to be the lucky ones. And then they all swam. And after decades of this, they became a tourist attraction.
You can swim with them, but they don't care about you all that much; what they want is the goodies.
Once the food is dispensed, they head right back to dry land.
hat tip Neatorama
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Sundae Friday Dec 23 11:29 AMA lovely piggy Friday IoTD.
No recipes from me, just loving the swimmingness.
jimhelm Friday Dec 23 11:35 AMpre brined hams!
Gravdigr Friday Dec 23 03:10 PMDamn, Jim beat me to it!
ZenGum Friday Dec 23 06:11 PMMan, those are the ugliest dolphins I've ever seen!
FloridaDragon Saturday Dec 24 11:23 PMI have a hard time understanding why the sharks haven't figured out the sounds of boats means bacon jumping in the water ...
Gravdigr Sunday Dec 25 03:21 AM
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...bacon jumping in the water...
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infinite monkey Sunday Dec 25 09:41 PMAll I can think about is how beautiful that water is and how much I want to swim in it...pig poo be damned!
Sundae Monday Dec 26 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by FloridaDragon
I have a hard time understanding why the sharks haven't figured out the sounds of boats means bacon jumping in the water ...
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Perhaps they keep kosher?
sullage Monday Dec 26 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ZenGum
Man, those are the ugliest dolphins I've ever seen!
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