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In April 2021, a video went viral on TikTok that supposedly showed a chipmunk pig, new hybrid animal that was created by breeding a chipmunk with a pig. While this video originated with an account dubbed Official TikTok Science, this video is officially a joke. The @officialtiktokscience account states in its bio that it is a satire account: This TikTok account used footage from a variety of sources in order to create their chipmunk pig hybrid video. For example, the footage near the end of the video showing this chipmunk pig eating from a small jar of food comes form a 2017 news story about an abandoned baby boar — not a chipmunk pig — who was nursed back to health by the Vale Wildlife Hospital in the United Kingdom. Metro reported at the time: Here's the original footage from the Caters News Agency: This video shows a baby pigs that has markings similar to a chipmunk. It does not show a hybrid animal that was created in a lab. Videos and photographs purporting to show hybrid animals have proved popular on social media for years. We've previously investigated claims regarding these alleged lab created animals, and found that a half-human, half-lion creature was actually a silicone doll, a human-dog hybrid was actually a sculpture, a goat-person was just a deformed goat, and a gorilla-human was a doctored image. The @OfficialTikTokScience account (again, which is not an official source for credible scientific information, but rather a satire account) appears to be taking advantage of the internet's desire to see strange new hybrid animals. This account has also made satirical videos featuring odd combinations of animals that include an owl and frog, a jelly fish and pig, a cat and and raccoon, a pig and dog, and an electric eel and squirrel.
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