Scouring through historical documents, Chu Hsien-pin discovered that the US National Institutes of Health had determined in the early 1970s that the miniature pigs of Lanyu were well suited as lab animals, based on Seventh Fleet intelligence reports.
台東種畜繁殖場畜產科技系主任朱賢斌查閱歷史文獻時發現，早在 1970 年代初期，美國國家衛生研究院就已根據美國海軍第七艦隊所蒐集的情報，認為蘭嶼島上的小型豬極為適合選作醫學實驗動物。