In 1807, sailors left pigs on a remote island as emergency food; 192 years later, rescuers found small, athletic animals valuable to medical research | World News
Auckland Island pigs at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve – Christchurch, New Zealand. Credits – Wikimedia Commons The Auckland Islands lie about 560 km south of the New Zealand mainland, a scattering of windswept subantarctic land buffeted by some of the roughest seas in the world. Sealers and whalers entering these waters in the early nineteenth century…
