PIG BEHAVIOUR

Pigs are very sensitive and curious animals, and very adaptable and smart, so they learn quickly. They love to investigate situations with a very sensitive nose and strong neck muscles. Their bodies are designed for pushing through scrub relying on scent rather than vision. They have a very well developed sense of hearing and communicate with a wide range of vocalisation calls. Pigs have a highly developed eye that sees colour, but vision can be restricted by their floppy ears. Pigs are very social animals that prefer to live in small groups. They are very clean animals not dunging in their eating/lying area. Piglets learn their toilet habits from their dam. As pets they can be house trained! Pigs prefer scrub or light woodland rather than open range where they feel more vulnerable to predators. They have acute hearing and loud unfamiliar noises easily panic them.

Pig squeals can reach 112 decibels and can damage human hearing. Any noise if spoken softly to pigs will aid friendship with pigs. Pigs use a wide range of sounds to communicate. Young piglets squeak, grunt, bark and squeal, and older pigs use various grunts and squeals to indicate hunger, thirst, alarm, fear, terror, affection, calling piglets to feed, courtship and many more.

Pigs forage and root for food and will eat a wide range of vegetable and animal products, including carrion.
In the wild, males fight only during the mating season. Juvenile males are tolerated within the family before being banished. Old non-mating males usually become solitary and dangerous.Pigs loved to scratch and be scratched, but surprisingly don’t do a lot of mutual grooming.