This Just In: Seldom Seen Swine Behavior Caught on Camera!

It’s been rumored for years that such behavior exists, yet until now, nobody has been able to capture it. Well, thanks to National Geographic, we’re finally able to witness the pig equivalent to the fist-bump:


As always, thanks, Marilyn T.

Photo by Amanda Kopp.

56 comments … read them below or add one

  1. High Snout Fist bump Snicker.

  2. Also SNOOOOOOORF!

  3. Katiedid says:

    snot bump :B)

  4. Katiedid says:

    snout*** for the love of goodness SNOUT!!

    [The other way's funnier. :lol: - Ed.]

  5. Suzanne says:

    MWUAH!

  6. ceejoe says:

    LOL @ Katiedid…
    both are fitting…

  7. 260Oakley says:

    Pen pals realize they have been paying through the nose for the swill served at this cafeteria.

  8. Illise says:

    So cuuuuuuuuuuute thats a huge beep lol

  9. kayouko says:

    Eeeeeeeeewwwwww! Please tell me piglet is not sniffing for “truffles” to consume here. ;)

  10. kathybc says:

    Oh, you gotta see the German Shepherd trying to take a bath! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbjYvVtt0Xo Talk about uncharacteristic.

  11. bookmonstercats says:

    Katiedid, you may well have been right the first time.

    260Oakley, truly thou rockest.

  12. georgina0912 says:

    Awwwwwwww…is there anything more precious than an innocent bebeh anipal?

    Nope, didn’t think so. And mom looks so proud :)

  13. Debbe says:

    PIGGYSNORGLING!!! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  14. Hon Glad says:

    Nosebody nose, nosebody nose, nosing your piglet, the faster he grows.

  15. Sally says:

    It barely looks real! Sooo cute! This kind of thing can never happen in the crates the sows are usually put in on big farms :(

  16. Mandy says:

    I used to kiss my pigs on the snout, don’t tell ;)

  17. Kar says:

    This doesn’t qualify as interspecies-snorgling but how about intergenerations-snorgling?

  18. Not That Mike The Other Mike says:

    HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!

  19. chanpon says:

    Romeo (aka big piggy): Have not saints snouts, and holy palmers too?
    Juliet (aka widdle piggy): Aye, pilgrim, snouts that they must use in prayer.

    Romeo: Oh then, dear saints, then let snouts do what hands do; they pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
    Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers sake.

    Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer’s effect take. Thus from my snout, by yours, my sin is purged.
    Juliet: Then have my snout the sin that they have took.
    *smooch*
    /curtain
    applause applause

  20. chanpon says:

    Oh yeah, apologies to Shakespeare.

    [Your sincerity humbles me. - Ed.]

  21. 260Oakley says:

    Chanpon:
    That’s from Hamlet, right?

  22. resriechan says:

    We here @ CO are indeed….a….creative & imaginative bunch o’ coconuts!!!!

    (hoping that nobody minds the use of
    the term “coconuts”; it’s all in affection, promise!!)

  23. resriechan says:

    260 Oakley: WERE YOU BORN telling puns, to yer mudder, in the OR????????

  24. Rachael says:

    Da widdle piggeh is just too much for me!!! I. am. ded. *thud*

  25. Berg says:

    Adorable, smiling peegs–the best way to begin a Tuesday morning!

  26. Katrina says:

    I suppose a COXCU is out of the question… yeah, it might do some of us in…

    [MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAoink. :twisted: - Ed.]

  27. unci says:

    And I thought for a plug with holes you needed a connector with pins?

  28. Lerrinus says:

    LOL @ Oakley! And katydid! :lol:

    Hope neither of them sneezes! ;-)

    Methinks 260Oakley was born in Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon

  29. Lerrinus says:

    *stands up*
    Coconut!
    And proud of it!
    *winks at resriechan* :-D

  30. LovesDogs says:

    *Oink*Oink*Snorgle*Snorgle*

  31. resriechan says:

    (winks joyfully back @ Lerrinus)

  32. T.U.M. says:

    They’re just like the Siamese Elephants!!!

    @chanpon

    I totally heard that in Kermit and Miss Piggy’s voices.

  33. erin says:

    smooooerch! I wanna give this piggy a snout kiss too! piglet stance + cute snouzzle smoosh = irresistibles!!

  34. Miaoosers says:

    eskimo kiss! ^-^

    ti-hi

  35. Meaghan says:

    I love the way the piglet is sitting. He looks so human.

  36. Trez4400 says:

    piggeh snorgles, now I’ve seen everything!

  37. 260Oakley says:

    @Lerrinus
    I don’t think I was actually born in Callahan’s, but if a pun will get me an Irish whiskey, I definitely want to visit. ;)

  38. TOOM says:

    Wasn’t Charlotte the spider? Maybe I’m mistaken…

  39. J. Bo says:

    Most urban folks don’t know how velvety a bebeh pig’s schnozzle is, but it is AWESOMELY soft and surprisingly prosh.

  40. Katrina says:

    Thank you, I’m correct-this is just toooooooooooo mosche…………..
    ack! Phwump!

  41. TrixandSam says:

    Yes, TOOM, Charlotte is the spider (who wrote the messages in the web that saved the pig…). Baby peeglet is telling his mamma about it.

    This makes me think of that post a couple of months ago of the leetle peeglet being placed in a bucket of warm water. All that squeeing and struggling magically shutting off the second he figures out it’s the good life.

  42. Marnie says:

    If that’s not enough to turn somebody vegetarian, nothing is!

  43. elvira says:

    Such snorgling, the likes of which I have ne’er see’d!!!

  44. Queen of Dork says:

    chanpon #19: That. was. freakin’ AWESOME!!!! :) :)

  45. baileysgrandmom says:

    Nose-body noes the trubble I’ve been; nose-body noes teh sorrow…

  46. Paunchie says:

    HONK!

  47. ash says:

    Fake Bacon never tasted so good.

  48. Vivi says:

    Whoa, that is one seriously obscure Eurythmics reference, Prongs.

  49. melissadesa says:

    Piggie Eskimo kiss!!!

  50. tinky says:

    BEEPKISSES

  51. LeAnn (not LeAnna) says:

    Shnorf!!

    And T.U.M., that’s the greatest Carol Burnett clip of all time, IMO.

  52. Paunchie says:

    We’ve all been staring at the schnouts, but what about the baby peeg’s butTOCKS?

    Lookit em!!

  53. Queen of Dork says:

    T.U.M.: Excellent Carol Burnett Show crack up footage! I was cracking up all over again watching that! :)

  54. American Weekends says:

    I used to work on an animal sanctuary and I discovered that this is how baby peegees talk to their mama’s! I’ve seen it a hundred times. They walk right up and initiate a series of grunts, squeaks, and *snorfs* into her mouth. It’s freaking adorable.

  55. iirightii says:

    Doubleplus Nose Beep…

    This might be the best mixed metaphor caption EVER. Way to go. [Thank yous. :) - Ed.]

    You’d think that it wouldn’t have a Snowball’s chance to pull it off, but please don’t end up with a Napolean complex.

  56. deva says:

    that is gross you can see snot a string of snot eww and pigs

    ROCK