Saturday, May 25 2013 11:43 PM EDT2013-05-26 03:43:20 GMT
Moving further west to New Ulm... The Minnesota Zoo took several creatures on the road this weekend.
Moving further west to New Ulm... The Minnesota Zoo took several creatures on the road this weekend.
It might look like a show from a traveling circus, but pigs from southern China are not diving to entertain people.
It's so they will taste better.
It's all the idea of Huang Deming, a pig farmer from China's central Hunan province who believes that the exercise will give the pigs leaner meat, which he can sell at a higher price.
The ritual, which Huang hopes will attract more visitors to his native Guanshan village, is performed at least three times a day, and sometimes as many as 30 times.
