Chinese pig weighs in at 1,980 pounds for Guinness record
CHINA - Experts in the northeastern China province of Liaoning are applying to list in the Guinness Book of Records a pig that weighed 900 kilograms at death, the heaviest ever reported in China. The pig was 2.5 meters long, had a waistline of 2.23 meters and a tusk of 14.4 centimeters long when it died on Feb. 5, aged five,said its keeper, Xu Changjin, a veteran farmer of Wafangdian city.
23 February 2004
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