Champion hog caller
NZPA-AFP Trie-sur-Baise Jean Angelo, a 45-year-old psychiatric nurse, has become France’s champion hog caller. In the southern village of Trie-sur-Baise Mr Angelo beat 15 competitors, including five women, with his rendition of a sow calling her piglets. The contest was part of the annual “poucailhade,” or pig festival at the site of the largest European pork market. Explaining the secret of
his success, Mr Angelo said he practiced once every two weeks for several months, but abstained from hog calling for four days before the competition to rest his vocal chords. A veterinarian specialising in pigs who headed the jury said pigs were the only animals capable of expressing a range of feeling with their voice, as does man, and the only animals subject to stomach ulcers, caused by stress.
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Press, 25 July 1984, Page 24
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