Animal Welfare - Video Games for Animals Without Hands

Scientists at pordu universities centre for animal welfare science released a paper last year which was the result of studies of pigs playing video games. And these pigs got pretty good avidio games for animals with no hands. Scientists set up a computer and a heavy duty joy stick in a pig pin and trained four pigs, hamlet, omelet, ebony and ivory,. to approach a and manipulate a joy stick with their mouths and snouts. The game was originally designed for chimp e research.

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