This little piggy is in a selfie

Nov 24, 2025

Tourists love picturesque places — if a photo can do well on social media, you know that tourists are going to dig that attraction. However, at the New Forest National Park in southern England, tourists seem to love the pigs that roam the park, almost 600 of them. They seem to be so obsessed that they have befriended them and are constantly taking pictures with them.

Some of them took it to an extreme and took selfies with the phone near their snouts, while other park workers have also noticed the tourists leaping out of their cars and following the piglets down a busy road. While a few other tourists have taken a more respectful and gentle approach. The visitors have now been labelled the “piggy tourists”, a social crime that has annoyed people at the park as well as those in charge of animal welfare.

The reason there are so many pigs in the park is becuse of a yearly ritual called “pannage”, where the swine are released to eat up all the acorns and nuts that could otherwise be toxic to the park’s cattle and ponies.

This year’s pannage season began in September and is expected to go until January 2026 with a heavier-than-usual acorn crop, which means that there’s likely to be a larger horde of piggy tourists this time around. The piggies will be contributing to the park by doing their part, but why they have become celebrities still remains a mystery.

An Australian man stoops to barking to silence his annoying neighbours

Neighbours can get annoying — especially with their loud chatter. Some reach for the earplugs. the bolder ones try yelling back and asking them to shut up. Australian Jack Cooper came up with a plan to record himself barking, and posted it on Instagram, saying that when his neighbours get too annoying, he pretends that he’s a dog getting irritated by the noise, so they shut up.

He could not have devised a better plan to keep his neighbours quiet. PIC/ISTOCK

Guess what? This genius idea really seems to work for him. In the video, he acted like a dog, and barked very convincingly, after which he yelled “Sashimi, shut up”, showing that he was yelling at his dog to be quiet. To sound believable, he also screamed “The neighbours are going to hear you!” The neighbours definitely heard all of it, and it worked to silence them just fine.

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Video: Evolution of Beef Cattle Farming

The Clear Conversations podcast took to the road for a special episode recorded in Nashville during CattleCon, bringing listeners straight into the heart of the cattle industry. Host Tracy Sellers welcomed rancher Steve Wooten of Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado for a wide-ranging discussion that blended family history and sustainability, particularly as it relates to the future of beef production.

Sustainability emerged as a central theme of the conversation, a word that Wooten acknowledges can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For him, sustainability starts with the soil. Healthy soil produces healthy grass, which supports efficient cattle capable of producing year after year with minimal external inputs. It’s an approach that equally considers vegetation, animal efficiency, and long-term profitability.

That philosophy aligned naturally with Wooten’s involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he served as a representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. The roundtable brings together the entire beef supply chain—from producers to retailers—along with universities, NGOs, and allied industries. Its goal is not regulation, Wooten emphasized, but collaboration, shared learning, and continuous improvement.