What makes a pig in the mud as happy as … well, a pig in the mud? Mud baths certainly keep pigs cool, a newly published research review finds, but wallowing may also be a sign of well-being in ...

What makes a pig in the mud as happy as … well, a pig in the mud? Mud baths certainly keep pigs cool, a newly published research review finds, but wallowing may also be a sign of well-being in ...

The strongest motivation for wallowing seems to be temperature regulation, Bracke found. Pigs have few sweat glands, high body fat and a barrel-shaped torso that stores heat. Wallowing can lower a ...

Pigs are one of many animals that wallow in the mud, using the roll in filthy water to keep cool in the absence of sweat glands. And that particular arrangement might be just how ancient pigs ...

London, April 30 (ANI): It is well known that pigs wallow in mud to keep cool because they do not have normal sweat glands to regulate their body temperature.

This is the amusing moment a pig was spotted relaxing in mud. Footage captured by Teresita Pallan shows the animal wallowing in the dirt in Manila, Philippines, on December 26.

Happy as a pig in slop, this Berkshire sow at the Schaumburg Park District's Volkening Heritage Farm finds relief from the heat by wallowing in this mud pit. Burt Constable/[email protected] ...

It is a true picture of contentment, and now a scientist is suggesting that a pig's love of mud is more than just a way to keep cool. A researcher in the Netherlands has looked at wallowing behaviour ...

WAGENINGEN, Netherlands, April 30 (UPI) -- A Dutch scientist says pigs' love of wallowing in mud may have a courtship function and may help explain how whales evolved.