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Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence – Gizmodo Australia
The four pigs came to win. If they played the game well, they got delicious dog food (they used to get M&Ms, but the humans decided those were too sugary). Time…
The four pigs came to win. If they played the game well, they got delicious dog food (they used to get M&Ms, but the humans decided those were too sugary). Time and again, when prompted by researchers to complete a video game task guiding a cursor with a joystick, a sort of rudimentary Pong they did so with impressive skill.
Researchers began putting pigs on computerised tasks in the late 1990s, and though the results got occasional press coverage over the years, no peer-reviewed research on the…
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