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From CNN's website:Chinese officials figure a 1,980-pound pig that died from lack of exercise has a shot at being named the world's biggest pig. They plan to apply for a listing in the Guinness Book of Records, the government's news agency said Monday.
The pig, which was 8 feet 3 inches long, is already the heaviest ever reported in China, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The beast had a girth of 7 feet 3 inches and its tusks were 5 3/4 inches long when it died February 5, the agency said. It cited the pig's keeper, Xu Changjin, a farmer in the northeastern province of Liaoning.
The pig lived to be 5 years old -- considered long in China, where most pigs are slaughtered by age 3 -- and was kept in a "nicely built sty," the report said.
But "it had grown too big to move around," said Liu Mingyu, a professor at Liaoning University, who said it died from lack of exercise.
China's previous heaviest pig weighed in at 1,540 points, Liu said.
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