can or do pigs swim?

Answer 1

Yes, but they can't fly.

Answer 2

My gradfather owned a pig farm the whole time I was growing up. Pigs CAN swim (I have seen them do it in both a stream and a small pond). They however seem to aviod it if possible on most occasions. We had one pet sow that for some reason liked the water and tended to swim the stream quite often. She is probably the exception, but they are able to do it.

Answer 3

Yes they do swim............For a very interesting bit of pig swimming read excerpt below and open link for the rest of the story.
IT'S REALLY QUITE EXCEPTIONAL!

http://www.luciesfarm.com/artman/publish/article_107.php
This may sound a strange question but for centuries it was truly believed that pigs couldn’t swim without cutting their own throats with their trotters. Read the words of one of our famous writers and poets from times past:

“Down the river did glide, with wind and with tide,
A pig with vast celerity;
And the Devil looked wise as he saw how the while
It cut its own throat. “There!” quoth he, with a smile,
“Goes England’s commercial prosperity."”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[The Devil’s Thoughts]
>>>>>>>>FAULKLAND ISLAND BATTLE<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>AMAZING STORY<<<<<<<<<<<
Thus it was that when pigs were witnessed doing what comes quite naturally to them when immersed in water, it tended to be seen as newsworthy. Take this newspaper report from 1915 during the sea battle between the Royal and German navies:

'During the Falklands Isles battle, the Germans escaped to the shore after causing an explosion which sank the Dresden. Tirpitz was left to his fate, but on finding himself in the water he struck out boldly, and an hour later was seen swimming near the Glasgow. Two sailors dived into the sea and brought him aboard. The ship’s company of the Glasgow awarded Tirpitz the Iron Cross for sticking to his ship after his shipmates had left, and he became a great pet on board.’

Answer 4

Yes they can swim. Giraffe is the only animal I know of that cant.

Answer 5

no and no