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Five piglets with their mother in Delhi. Cute piglets are peacefully sleeping in their habitat and mother pig stands in a distance, feeding herself. Because of their relative lack of sweat glands, pigs often control their body temperature using behavioural thermoregulation. Wallowing which often consists of coating the body with mud is a behaviour frequently exhibited by pigs. Pigs root to make wallows that sometimes contains sticky mud with which the pigs cover their body. Pigs do not submerge completely under the mud but vary the depth and duration of wallowing depending on environmental conditions. The domestic pig typically has a large head with a long snout which is strengthened by a special prenasal bone and a disk of cartilage at the tip. The snout is used to dig into the soil to fi
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