Pigs

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We are eternally grateful to all those kind people who help us to care for the animals in our sanctuary.

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UK registered charity number 1076645

At Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary we have Kune Kune Pigs. All have been rescued within the UK.

Pigs are intelligent animals.

Like humans, pigs are omnivores, meaning they eat both plants and other animals.

A pig's snout is an important tool for finding food in the ground and sensing the world around them.

Pigs have an excellent sense of smell.

There are around 2 billion pigs in the world.

Newborn piglets learn to run to their mothers’ voices, and can recognize their own names by the time they’re 2 weeks old. Sows have even been known to sing to their young whilst nursing.

Think that pigs are slow and lumbering? As it turns out, they’re not at all! Adult pigs can run at speeds of up to 11mph, or in other words, they can run a seven-minute mile. Could you do any better?

A pig's squeal can be as loud as 115 decibels – that’s 3 decibels higher than the sound of a supersonic airliner.

And when they’re not squealing, they’re talking. Pigs communicate constantly with each other, and more than 20 different vocalisations have been identified; from wooing a mate to saying ‘I’m hungry!”

And dreaming isn’t the only way in which pigs are similar to humans – their genetic makeup is also very close to our own. Because of this, stem cells from pigs are being used by scientists to research cures for human diseases. To track the cells once they’ve been injected, Chinese geneticists have crossed a pig with a jellyfish, producing piglets whose tongues and trotters glow fluorescent green in UV light.

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The perfect gift for animal lovers, why not adopt a Pig

We are eternally grateful to all those kind people who help us to care for the animals in our sanctuary. Donations from the public, businesses and other organisations are vital to our continued survival and any contribution or other form of support is greatly appreciated.

Here are some of the characters that you will see on your visit to the Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary.

Click here to read about Cabbage, Spanner and their friends at the Sanctuary.