Sheep-pig lookalike found in Argentina actually a Woolly pig from Hungary
The sheep-pig hybrid found in Argentina is a pig with its own sheep fleece. Scientists are baffled by the strange swine, which they say is a pig “at heart” but with a woolly hide.
The one-year-old is being raised on a ranch near the town of Esquina, 400 miles north of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was a gift to owner Felipe Olivetti from a neighboring farm. He admitted: “Experts have told us it is unique. It is a pig but has a thick fleece which needs shearing in summer with the other sheep because it suffers in the heat. Other pigs do not trust it.”
It turns out their real name are Mangalitzas, an ancient breed of Woolly pigs from the area of Austria-Hungary. At one time their meat products were in demand all over Europe to such an extent it was traded on the Vienna Stock Exchange and a hundred thousand animals a year were sold from Hungary to the West. In Switzerland the pigs were a very important product where they were slowly overtaken in importance by the dominant “English” style animals which are more suited to “intensive” rearing.
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