Island in the Bahamas Is Full of Swimming Pigs : DNews
Swim with the swine, brehs.
Island in the Bahamas Is Full of Swimming Pigs
AUG 13, 2015 11:50 AM ET // BY DANNY CLEMENS, DSCOVRD
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An island in the Bahamas has some unlikely celebrity residents: 20 friendly feral pigs whose love of the water has made them a local sensation.
Affectionately dubbed Pig Beach, the island is a hopping tourist destination. In exchange for food, the charismatic pigs take to the water to greet approaching boaters:
Nobody knows for sure how the pigs ended up on the otherwise uninhabited cay in the Atlantic Ocean. Some believe that a group of sailors left the pigs on the island, intending to eventually return and cook the pigs (spoiler alert: they never came back). Others believe that the pigs were the sole survivors of a mysterious shipwreck, managing to swim ashore while their human companions drowned tragically.
Another less whimsical theory suggests that the pigs were intentionally planted to attract tourists -- which, if you ask us, is pretty genius.
This article originally appeared on Discovery's Dscovrd blog.
Swim with the swine, brehs.
