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Imagine driving down the highway on your way to work and being attacked by a 400-lb. feral hog. This is starting to become a reality for many Texans, according to Bloomberg. There are an estimated 2.5 million feral hogs roaming around the state of Texas. The massive animals came to be after domesticated pigs escaped into the wild and began to mate with Eurasian boars. As a result, the highly adaptable species has taken over, causing millions in damage to farms, grasslands and now, the new stretch of State Highway 130. Four accidents happened during construction even before the highway opened. Since opening, officials have reported at least four more accidents. To fix this problem, the ...

We've heard of humping dogs, but never sexually aggressive pigs. According to Contact Music, Megan Fox had to give away her beloved pet pig after it became sexually aggressive. Originally Fox said she had to adopt out her pet, Piggie Smalls, due to issues with her recent move, but that doesn't seem to be the real story. Fox's husband Brian Austin Green recently revealed they give away Piggie Smalls due to some concerning behavior. "I'd had pigs before and they're ... really fun, cool animals to have around; they're really smart. They're cool pets to have. But ours got really sexually aggressive because we didn't get him fixed and he literally got to the point where he was mounting and ...

Therapy pets are amazing and altruistic creatures; sadly, not all of them are treated equally. According to the Daily Mail U.K., a little boy with Down syndrome may be fined for his pet therapy pig, because the animal is illegal to keep as a pet in his Florida town. Kason Ray's family got the seven-week-old pig, Tiny Twinkie, to help their son with his development. The Rays say they have already seen a positive change in Kason's behavior with the pig in the picture. Tiny Twinkie's sweet face and demeanor are the perfect tool against controlling Kason's occasional fits. "He doesn't like things and Tiny Twinkie has a very calming effect on him. It mellows him out, it calms him down," ...

According to the Daily Mail U.K., "Animal Farm" author George Orwell was right - humans and pigs are almost identical. A new study has found that like humans, swine are adaptable, easy to seduce with food and also easily domesticated creatures. These findings were published in the journal "Nature" by investigators, including Professor Martin Groenen, one of the main scientists in the study. Groenen and his team found that pigs suffer from some of the same genetic and protein malfunctions seen in human diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and obesity. "We identified many more gene variants implicated in human disease, further supporting the pig as a valuable biomedical model," said ...