[Vision2020] Animals are Smarter Than You Think

[Tom Hansen]

A farmer had five female pigs. Times were hard, so he decided to take them
to the county fair and sell them. At the fair, he met another farmer who
owned five male pigs.

After talking a bit, they decided to mate the pigs and split everything
50/50. The farmers lived sixty miles apart. So they agreed to drive thirty
miles each, and find a field in which to let the pigs mate.

The first morning, the farmer with the female pigs got up at 5 a.m., loaded
the pigs into the family station wagon, which was the only vehicle he had,
and drove the thirty miles.

While the pigs were mating, he asked the other farmer, "How will I know if
they are pregnant?" The other farmer replied, "If they're in the grass in
the morning, they're pregnant, if they're in the mud, they're not."

The next morning the pigs were rolling in the mud. So he hosed them off,
loaded them into the family station wagon again and proceeded to try again.
This continued each morning for more than a week.

One morning the farmer was so tired, he couldn't get out of bed. He called
to his wife, "Honey, please look outside and tell me whether the pigs are in
the mud or in the grass."

"Neither," yelled his wife, "they're in the station wagon and one of them is
honking the horn."

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Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
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