From "Egypt orders slaughter of all pigs over swine flu," by Maamoun Yousef, AP (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_swine_flu)

CAIRO - Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a ( Read more... )

Not the whole reason, but an example thereof:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_fe_st/odd_goat_thief

LAGOS, Nigeria - One of Nigeria's biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front- ( Read more... )