The Chinese zodiac cycles between 12 animals — the rat, the ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the goat, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig.
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Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
My parents were known for their epic new year party, my mom making hundreds of dumplings by hand, often supplementing that with a whole suckling pig and endless bottles of baijiu, a powerful sorghum liquor.
Pigs possess complex social dynamics but spend their entire short life crowded into hog houses.
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Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Feb. 2026
State Highway 130 has a stretch with a speed limit of eighty-five miles an hour, the highest in the country; the night the road opened, three cars crashed into feral hogs.
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