“What we found was that they actually – a big surprise to people who work with pigs, right? Not at all! – is that they’re really very fast learners. They learn novel things quite quickly and quite well.”

She also prepared other tasks for them, so they were asked to solve mazes as well as distinguish peppermint from spearmint. According to a recent study, the scent is very important for pigs to recognize things.

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