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Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence

Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence

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…

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