This is the moment Tibetan pigs plunge from a platform into the water below like lemmings on a hot summer’s day in China.

The cute footage was filmed in Dongjia Village near the city of Yiyang in the landlocked Chinese province of Hunan earlier this month.

Farmer Liang Limin raises Tibetan pigs at his farm and allows them to enjoy a cool dip when the temperatures get too hot in the summer.

He will sometimes hose the pigs down with cool water in their pigpen or lead them along a route that sees them plunge into a small reservoir before continuing the path back round to their pigpen.

In the footage, the pigs are seen wandering along the fenced route before arriving at a sloped edge overhanging the water below.

The pigs plunge over the edge like lemmings in the 1958 Disney documentary White Wilderness, famous for propagating the misconception of lemming mass suicide.

The footage shows some pigs apparently hesitant about stepping onto the slope and inevitably ending up in the water, while others apparently cannot wait and jump before their turn.

They then swim through the small reservoir until walking up the steps at the far end and continuing along the fenced route.