AUDIO: SCIENTISTS DECODE PIG GRUNTS
A team of European scientists has analyzed over 7,000 recordings of grunts from over 400 pigs, and are now able to decode pig grunts into identifiable emotions. The scientists, from the University of Copenhagen and France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, say this will help improve pig welfare all over the world. The recordings included the pigs’ reactions to both positive and negative events. The team developed a special algorithm capable of decoding whether a pig is experiencing positive emotions, such as happiness or excitement, or negative emotions like fear or stress, and even somewhere in between. The findings appear in the journal Scientific Reports.
* Thank you, Dr. Doolittle.
* Now stop hogging all the attention.
* I’ll bet the report was sloppy.
* Is that journal translated into pig language? Which, of course, would be pig Latin.
* Let me guess – they’re happy in mud, stressed at the slaughterhouse?
* Algorithms. Is there ANYTHING they can’t do?
CLIP: Porky Pig with real pig, “Heh-heh. Th- th- that’s silly.”
