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Study Reveals Pigs Can Become Excellent Video Game Players

A new study reveals that pigs are not only very intelligent animals, but are great at gaming too. The paper appeared in the Frontiers in Psychology journal, and showed how two Yorkshire pigs, Hamlet and Omelet, and two Panepinto micro pigs, Ebony and Ivory, became adept at playing video games. The pigs were trained using a "Rudimentary joystick-operated video game task" that was first developed to test chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys.

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