A new scientific study has found that pigs can be taught to use a computer.
In the study, pigs were able to move a cursor to hit a wall on a screen and earn a treat.
Pigs have long been thought of as smarter than your average animal. But now researchers claim they have taught pigs to use a joystick, suggesting they are even cleverer than previously thought.
Pigs have already been found to be able to solve multiple-choice puzzles, and learning commands such as “sit”.
Writing in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, Dr Sarah Boysen highlight how they used tasty treats to train the pigs to move the joysticks using their snouts while watching a computer screen.
The researchers then presented the pigs with a video game. The pigs had to use the joystick to manoeuvre a cursor until it collided with one of four wall-like structures on screen. Upon collision the game made a “bloop” sound and the pig received a treat.
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Wow.. Who knew pigs could use computers?..
wow this is amazing how do they do it
So funny
PIGS ARE AWESOME!
Wow
amazing that’s cool
wow interesting facts
this is wierd
thats so cool but how? my dad said that pigs a smarter than dogs is that true?
Cute but sad
wow
Interesting
That’s really cool how the pigs learned to use a computer-And only for a treat!
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WOW that’s amazing……….. pigs are so smart!
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wow, who new that pigs could use computers.
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I know this is so cool
OMG that is so talented WOW I just can’t believe it. Mind BLOWN
This is shocking and all but wot if our future is taken over by pigs? I wouldn’t want that.
Very interesting article!
wow? they must be smart unlike other pigs
wow pigs can use computers wow i love it so cute too
Awesome!….Who knew that pigs, of animals could do that?
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That’s really cool
this is crazy!!
pigs are cool and I live on a farm but I dont have pigs but I have wached a moive with pigs it was a very funny Oun to who new that pigs could uas a laptop and a computer that is very Inpresive
What!!?? How does a pig use a computer?
awsome
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what so cool and cute but did a dog do something smart
I thought pigs can only use an IPAD, not a computer!
omg cool
How fascinating?! I never knew that pigs were that smart?! That is prodigious!
probably the most random thing ever!