Pigs

• Their skills: they can solve mazes, understand emotions, and even play video games

Pigs are animals in the genus Sus and highly and intelligent domesticated creatures. However, Candace Croney, who is an Associate Professor of Animal Sciences at Purdue University, once taught pigs to play video games.

“Cognition is about all the processes that animals have available to them, that allow them to get information, store information, recall it and use it so that they can adapt to the environment that they find themselves in or not,” she said.