Dec 23, 2011: The swimming pigs of the Bahamas

Undertoad • Dec 23, 2011 10:54 am
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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.

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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.

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You can swim with them, but they don't care about you all that much; what they want is the goodies.

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Once the food is dispensed, they head right back to dry land.

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hat tip Neatorama

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Sundae • Dec 23, 2011 11:29 am
A lovely piggy Friday IoTD.
No recipes from me, just loving the swimmingness.
jimhelm • Dec 23, 2011 11:35 am
pre brined hams!
Gravdigr • Dec 23, 2011 3:10 pm
Damn, Jim beat me to it!
ZenGum • Dec 23, 2011 6:11 pm
Man, those are the ugliest dolphins I've ever seen!
FloridaDragon • Dec 24, 2011 11:23 pm
I have a hard time understanding why the sharks haven't figured out the sounds of boats means bacon jumping in the water ...
Gravdigr • Dec 25, 2011 3:21 am
...bacon jumping in the water...


:lol2:
infinite monkey • Dec 25, 2011 9:41 pm
All I can think about is how beautiful that water is and how much I want to swim in it...pig poo be damned!
Sundae • Dec 26, 2011 1:44 pm
FloridaDragon;782889 wrote:
I have a hard time understanding why the sharks haven't figured out the sounds of boats means bacon jumping in the water ...

Perhaps they keep kosher?
sullage • Dec 26, 2011 2:21 pm
ZenGum;782553 wrote:
Man, those are the ugliest dolphins I've ever seen!