The animal world shows us the different ways in which the color is part of its evolution and survival. Some species use a static camouflage, because their colors are mixed with the vegetation or the elements of their habitat. It is not too strange found with some species with blue tones. However, not all the creatures in the animal kingdom can boast this feature. The blue color is the pigment that less is given in nature.
There are pigs in white, pink, black, brown colors even with stains and many other combinations, but there are no blue pigs and much less with blue meat. For this reason, a particular case of the United States has left the entire world completely surprised.
On a ranch in Morgan Hill, California, a couple found a wild pig, which they decided to hunt to take it as a meal. However, when they opened it, they found a strange surprise, since both the meat and the blood of the pig were of normal color, but the layer of fat that coats the inside of its body was blue.
Hunters of California have amazed thousands of users around the world, after sharing in the social networking multiple images in which you can see a wild pig that, under its dark skin, has a strange fat of blue color. The images were shared in a cyber-forum and quickly became a viral sensation, it is said that it is possible that the strange blue color of the pig is due, perhaps, to that the animal could have been intoxicated with copper; however, pointed out that this scenario is unlikely since in the area there is only mercury mines that have several years closed.
The couple said that they had hunted pigs in this area before, but they had never seen anything like that. In this way, many web surfers have ventured with several theories, being the most popular that there would be a copper mine near and that would have been the cause of the color. However, the couple noted that there are only old mercury mines – and which they have already filled – in the nearby areas.
A spokesman for the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife of California says that this is not an isolated case. Before, they have already seen other animals in similar circumstances. It was determined that in the previous cases these animals had consumed chemicals containing blue dye. The pigs eat pesticides and rodenticides and this stain their fat.
So far it has not been determined why the fat throughout the body is blue in color, now, hunters of the animal have reported that they had sent a sample of the tissue to analysts of the University of California, with the hope that the specialists may determine which was the cause of the strange color in the fat of the pig, reason of this curious anomaly.