Because their bodies evolved in a way to prioritize finding food, pigs necks don’t bend enough to allow them to look up at the sky.
Pigs can look up but are physically incapable of looking straight up to the sky. This is because a pig’s spine and neck muscles limit the movement of their head and make it impossible for them to look totally upwards.
Yet another query we ran across in our research was “Is it physically impossible for pigs to look into the sky?”.
Hence, the myth of It is physically impossible for pigs to look into the sky is partially right.
Can pigs look at you through their eyes?
They can but rarely do. Their minds and bodies are focused on digging the ground. The angle of their necks is naturally bent over downwards. To watch a bird in a tree top a pig has to bend its head in an awkward way. To look your pig in the eyes you normally have to get down on your knees.
Another frequent query is “Why can’t pigs look up?”.
Wild boars and pigs are able to look up enough to see the sky because they don’t have as much neck fat as farm pigs. The reason that many people believe that pigs can’t look up is because they don’t have the ability to look straight up.
The most common answer is; They have indestructible noses that can rootle any ground, to find interesting things to eat. If they’re looking at other pigs, those pigs are mostly at the same eye-level as they are. In the wild, they make big vegetation “nests” to hide themselves and their piglets.
When I was researching we ran into the query “Why can’t wild boars see above you?”.
They cannot look directly above them and they have to “sit” to be able to look at a higher angle than normal. This is because domesticated pigs have necks that naturally slope downward. Wild boars and wild pigs have a higher neck reach than domesticated pigs.
Do pigs enjoy sunrises and sunsets?
Their tender loving spirit for food and making rukus, allow them to enjoy sunrises, and sunsets with the light pastels of pinks and blue kissing the sky. Or the hazy dark blues and white clouds standing out as the sun goes down. Many piglets have sat and watched with great content, the sunrises and sunsets. That we as himans enjoy to.