Pigs

Pigs are seen at a farm in western Brazil.

Meishan piglets

A zoo keeper presents two Meishan piglets at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin. In Germany the pig is a traditional symbol for good luck at the beginning of a new year.

Red river hog

This red river hog stands in a temporary location at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.

Red river hogs ( piglets )

Four red river hogs root around their home at the San Diego Zoo. The piglets, born on April 27, get their striped and spotted look from a combination of dark skin beneath light hair. This coloring helps young red river hogs blend into their native rain forest habitat in central and western Africa. As these piglets mature, they will begin to look like their father, Legolas, with a red, shaggy coat, a raised, white mane that runs the length of the spine and black and white tassels on the tips of their leaf-shaped ears.

Pig

A pig who somehow floated or swam several miles from the flooded hog barns near Oakville, attempts to crawl over the levee from the Mississippi River side of a sandbagged levee near Kingston, Iowa.