{"id":435,"date":"2026-07-21T01:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:48:54","slug":"three-little-piggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Three little piggies&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While driving through Goethe State Forest I ran across the three little piggies having dinner. Mama piggy was busy burying her nose in the mud after the rains looking for grub, and of course her two little ones were doing the same. Here&#8217;s what an Ai search came up with. &#8220;Wild hogs dig up the ground\u2014a behavior called &#8220;rooting&#8221;\u2014primarily&nbsp;<mark>to search for food like grubs, earthworms, roots, and tubers<\/mark>. Because pigs are omnivores, they use their tough snouts and tusks to overturn soil and scavenge for underground meals, which can leave landscapes looking severely tilled up&#8221; To me it&#8217;s just pigs looking for a meal.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0H6K7546-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0H6K7546-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0H6K7546-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0H6K7546-2000x1333.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><p><\/p><p>It was incredible to see them for such long time without being noticed. I was driving my truck when I spotted a pinkish skin tone in the near by woods so I stopped and pointed my camera at them and started clicking. I guess when you&#8217;re busy digging for food it&#8217;s difficult to see or hear anyone around you.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0H6K7540-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0H6K7540-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0H6K7540-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0H6K7540-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><p>All in all I was happy to see nature doing what nature does and more importantly I did not ruined their dinner. Usually these guys are really sensitive to any noise and run away quickly. I have a video on Instagram if you&#8217;d like to waste a minute of your time watching. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DbCXXlsqWZz\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Click here!<\/a><\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While driving through Goethe State Forest I ran across the three little piggies having dinner. Mama piggy was busy burying her nose in the mud after the rains looking for grub, and of course her two little ones were doing the same. Here&#8217;s what an Ai search came up with. &#8220;Wild hogs dig up the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/?p=435\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three little piggies&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}