stackyFACTSIt only takes a few weeks in the woods for a cute, pink barnyard pig to turn into a hairy, tusked menace. When domestic swine escape captivity, rapid epigenetic shifts cause them to grow thick bristly hair and elongate their snouts, aggressively reawakening their ancient wild boar biology.
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