22 June 2008
Pigs can play joystick controlled video games.
Professor Stanley Curtis of Penn State University found that pigs play and excel at joystick-controlled video games. He observed that they are "capable of abstract representation" and "are able to hold an icon in the mind and remember it at a later date."
* SOURCE:
"In a Pig's Eye" - by Eston Martz Penn State Agricultural Magazine, Fall/ Winter 1997
http://aginfo.psu.edu/Psa/fw97/eye.html
* LEARN MORE:
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The Smartest Pig - Article
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