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Mar 8, 2022 · A pig's grunts and oinks can reveal its emotions, according to a new study that'll leave you squealing. Using thousands of recordings gathered throughout the lives of pigs, a team of researchers...
Mar 7, 2022 · Using more than 7000 audio recordings of pigs, the researchers designed an algorithm that can decode whether an individual pig is experiencing a positive emotion (‘happy’ or ‘excited’), a negative one (‘scared’ or ‘stressed’), or somewhere in between.
Mar 7, 2022 · Using thousands of acoustic recordings gathered throughout the lives of pigs, from their births to deaths, an international team of researchers is the first in the world to translate pig grunts...
Mar 9, 2022 · To crack the code of pig communication, scientists in five research labs across Europe used hand-held microphones to gather roughly 7,400 distinct calls from 411 individual pigs.
- Corinne Purtill
Mar 20, 2022 · With over 7,000 audio recordings of the pigs’ barks, grunts, screams and squeals, the team of researchers were able to design an algorithm that can decode whether an individual pig is experiencing a positive emotion, a negative one, or neutral.
- Paul Healey
Mar 13, 2022 · Pigs are noisy creatures, from their contented oinks to their terrified squeals. But could those sounds contain clues to their emotions and welfare? An international team of researchers say so.
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Oct 19, 2020 · You can stop a pig from squealing by making it comfortable. If it makes the sound when you pick it up, it’s because it doesn’t want to get picked up. It can also happen that your pet feels threatened by other animals, like other pets they saw for the first time.