Pigs helping ponies!

Every year the famous New Forest ponies of southern England face a health crisis. Acorns fall to the ground in huge numbers, tempting the ponies into eating them. But the acorns will make the ponies sick. 

What to do? Release pigs into the forest to eat all the acorns first, before the ponies can get to them! At the end of acorn season the happy pigs are rounded up and returned to their owners. Win-win!

Image courtesy Flickr/jans canon