Pigs find food in the piles of garbage, in Delhi

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Pigs foraging in a trash dump in Delhi. India easily leads the world in numbers of street pigs, but relatively few are completely feral. Much of the Indian domestic pig population roams the streets to forage, loosely attended by herders who may be blocks away. Relatively few pigs are raised in confinement, in a nation whose upper caste Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, and Muslims have traditionally shunned pork. Delhi also is among the cities where street-dwelling pig production has most conspicuously expanded. Source: www.animalpeoplenews.org/07/1/indiansteetpigsnotferal1_07.htm This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of 50,