Grunting Pig Hand Puppet

Fun Facts for Kids

• If you try to pick a pig up, the animal will resist until it's back on the ground. Pigs in general are very afraid of being taken up.
• In rural areas, you can often hear the saying “living the life of a pig”, which is usually addressed to spoiled children or very rich people.
• Pigs are highly intelligent and easily trainable animals, learning various tricks even faster than dogs. At 2-3 weeks old, piglets have already learned their own names and usually respond to them. As a matter of fact, they are the fourth most intelligent animals in the world only to chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants.
• Another unique feature of pigs is their unusual gait. When walking, these animals use only 2 toes on each foot, due to which they seem to walk on tiptoe.
• Hippopotamus are distant relatives of pigs.
• During a long period of time, China used to hold the largest population of domestic pigs around the world.
• Pigs give out a shrill, high-pitched squealing noise of up to 115 decibels, which is 3 decibels higher than that of a supersonic Concorde.
• In order to bring pigs together, farmers simply produce a yelling sound, to which they instantly respond.
• As Winston Churchill said, “Dogs look up to a man. Cats look down at a man. Pigs look us straight in the eye and see an equal.”