A furry pig that looks like a sheep and acts like a dog is not the product of genetic engineering. It is a Mangalica pig breed, an autochthonous Serbian-Hungarian species that is most widespread in Hungary (homeland) and the Balkans, but is also found in Slovenia. A bristle pig, quickly mistaken for a sheep by the unwary observer, is technically a pig, but in reality it is a mixture of pig, sheep and dog. It is also possible to raise it as a pet.
They are mangalice shaggy pigs that look like sheep and act like dogs. They are known for their curly, practically sheepish hair, which will make you wonder why these sheep are rummaging through the mud like a man possessed. Well, they are actually bristling pigs, but they can be raised as dogs and kept for pets. An actress leads him around on a leash, for example Emma Thompson. It is not a product of genetic engineering, i.e. manipulation of genes, but of native species, which was created in the 19th century by crossing the Serbian Šumadija breed with Hungarian breeds from Szalonna and Bakony and wild boar.
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During the communist era, the government policy in Hungary suppressed the mangalicas on the brink of extinction (the breed was decimated from 30 thousand pigs to only 200), but after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Hungarian animal geneticist Peter Toth bought the last copies of mangalics and saved them from destruction. There are three types namely white, black and red. Their characteristic is thick layers of fat, which can be as thick as 20 centimeters.
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