> Most notably, however, the medieval pig was not naked and pink at all, but covered in long dark hairs. In appearance, it was therefore not dissimilar to a boa

> Most notably, however, the medieval pig was not naked and pink at all, but covered in long dark hairs. In appearance, it was therefore not dissimilar to a boar with which it was often cross-bred. Even in the seventeenth century - long after the middle ages - domestic pigs retained some of these traits, as the drawing below from 1610 shows. This seems uncomfortably close to perpetuating falsehoods about modern pigs, which are not uniformly "naked and pink" but in fact often are covered in hair and come in many colors. And I'm not talking about cross-bred boars. I'm talking about pigs. I've seen pitch black pigs with more hair than a bear. Hairy pigs spotted like dalmatians. Pigs with hair as red as a ginger's. Pigs that are mostly pink with black splotches, or mostly black with pink splotches. As for pigs being fast, pig racing is a sport today. Some pigs today are athletic with long legs and move very fast. The fat and lazy ones are probably that way due to their lifestyle as much as their genetics.