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Pig in brave leap to freedom from slaughterhouse truck

This pig was on the way to a slaughterhouse before he made a death-defying jump from a moving truck to save his bacon.

The pig was reportedly in a transportation truck somewhere in South America, and managed to climb onto the top of the truck’s back roof.

A driver behind the truck filmed the pig making his way up to the top, before he suddenly jumped out.

He falls onto the road, where he rolls to the side and onto the grass.

The pig then slowly stands up and starts hobbling away with what appeared to be a broken back leg.

The footage has made its way onto YouTube, after another pig recently leaped off a truck in China.

A witness said the Chinese sow, now referred to as Babe, climbed over the backs of other pigs before leaping out of the slaughterhouse van, Metro UK reports.

Images of this pig have gone around the world, after police who responded to the incident in the Guangxi region took her in and adopted her.

This article originally appeared on News.com.au.