Pigs in a sentence

Long isolated from other pigs on the many islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, pigs have evolved into many different species, including wild boar, bearded pigs, and warty pigs.

For instance, I've seen pigs, ferrets, guinea pigs, and goats end up in local shelters, but none have had a name quite this punny!

Chimpanzees, bears and pigs were also used to test the impact of accidents on organs but were phased out due to inadequate results as well as animal welfare concerns – although there are reports China was using pigs as recently as 2019.

The virus, transmitted to humans through contact with bodily fluids of infected bats, pigs or other people, was first identified in 1999 during an outbreak affecting farmers and others in contact with pigs in Malaysia.

Truffle can be a contentious flavour, but if your palate leans towards the extravagant, these pigs in blankets will add a whole new layer to the traditional PIBs, much like the Ashfields Pigs in Blankets Roulette.

He said that demand had dropped from a daily consumption of about 200 pigs before the MCO period to about 150 pigs during the MCO period.

Recent ones include HIV (chimpanzees), Ebola (bats), Nipah (pigs and bats) and H1N1 Influenza (pigs and birds).

BQP offers full support through setting up and getting started with pigs through their team of vets and field staff, so experience with pigs is not essential.

No one knows if feeding a diet low in protein to weanling pigs also results in changes in carcass characteristics of market pigs.

In addition to farm-raised pigs, there are a number of wild pigs.

Mostly Chinese geese and pigs because vast numbers of Chinese peasants live in the same hut as their pigs and geese, especially during cold wet weather.

Not only did these pigs show symptoms of the flu about four days after infection, but they also passed the disease along to uninfected pigs.

A follow-up experiment by Suneson et al. implanted high-speed pressure transducers into the brain of pigs and demonstrated that a significant pressure wave reaches the brain of pigs shot in the thigh.

Appalled at the depredations visited by feral pigs upon the island's brown booby and masked booby colonies (reduced to 500 and 150 birds, respectively), Stager procured a shotgun and killed all 58 pigs.

Gao 2008. p. 14. Workers were supposed to "grasp revolution and promote productions", while peasants were supposed to raise more pigs because "more pigs means more manure, and more manure means more grain".

In contrast to Jacobs's version, which left the pigs nameless, Lang's retelling cast the pigs as Browny, Whitey, and Blacky.

In one incident, he and his brother Heman went to the farm of a neighbor, some of whose pigs had escaped onto their land, and seized the pigs.

The study also found that despite back-crossing with wild pigs, the genomes of domestic pigs have strong signatures of selection at DNA loci that affect behavior and morphology.

The study indicated that pigs were domesticated separately in Western Asia and China, with Western Asian pigs introduced into Europe where they crossed with wild boar.

Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, "plowing under" of pigs was also common to prevent them reaching a reproductive age, as well as donating pigs to the Red Cross.