shoutout to paris hilton for not abandoning her ‘micropig’
when it turned out that it was a normal piggy who grew up to be a big fat fatty piggu
Actually that’s pretty standard size for a micro pig. Pigs are ENORMOUS, dude. The average pig on a farm is 7 feet long and over 700 lbs. A normal pig would be much bigger than Hilton.
EDIT: This is a photo of the world’s smallest recognized breed of pig, the kune kune. I’m sorry cartoons lied to you all.
This is the pot bellied pig, another famous “small” breed.
This is your average adult pig.
Big ole’ pigs.
Reblogging because I feel so misinformed about pigs right now. My life is a lie.
WIld boar are a bit smaller than that last piggy, but being wild (okay, free-range) there’s a much higher muscle-to-fat ratio so they’re faster, more nimble and Wild in another sense – they have serious Aggression, Attitude and Anger Management issues, have great big tusks, and no compunction about using them.
In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, hunting boar on horseback or foot with a spear* was regarded as an acceptable training for war.
*Boar-spears had a cross-piece or a toggle (sometimes made from an actual tusk) otherwise the boar would come right up the spear-shaft and get you.
Think of all the occasions in movies (”Excalibur”, “Star Trek: Nemesis” etc.) when a stalwart opponent has done that, usually in a succession of tugs. Now imagine it happening at about 20 mph with this at the business end…
That is a BOAR, not a BEAR, but you’d have to look twice.
Some really brave (or loopy) types even used a specialist sword. Without a rigid spear-shaft – which on boar-spears was as thick as the average wrist – they had to trust to the strength of their own wrist and elbow to keep the boar at bay…
…and Cesare Borgia (yes, that one) supposedly went in after boar with a non-specialist sword, perhaps this beautiful cinquedea currently in a Rome museum…
If the story’s true, then instead of stabbing the animal his technique was to sidestep at the last instant and cut at its neck. Okay, he was a wealthy, powerful Renaissance nobleman with presumably lots of henchmen, lackeys and other backup, but that wouldn’t matter in the slightest if he fumbled and the boar got in first.
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