An adorable video of a group of puppies playing with a group of mini pigs is providing the perfect boost of endorphins online. In a video with over 650,000 views on TikTok, Alabama based Grass Puppies ...

March 1, 2026 is National Pig Day, celebrating an animal that more often than not brings to mind filth, cartoons, and maybe a ...

A team of researchers at Purdue University have successfully taught four pigs how to use a joystick — novel research that demonstrates a “remarkable” level of behavioral and mental flexibility, ...

Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony and Ivory aren't rescuing Princess Peach just yet, but they did show a remarkable ability to learn and operate a game. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech ...

Pigs can be trained to play simple video games, scientists have found, demonstrating the animals' potential for a "remarkable" level of behavioral and mental flexibility. Similar experiments have been ...

The four pigs came to win. If they played the game well, they got delicious dog food (they used to get M&Ms, but the humans decided those were too sugary). Time and again, when prompted by researchers ...

Experts found that pigs can play video games, offering new concepts and ideas of animal intelligence. The experiment includes four pigs that are tasked to play classic games so that they can have dog ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s easy to forget how much pigs are like us. Take, for instance, the simple fact ...

No, pigs haven’t learned to fly — but they have learned to play video games. In fact, they may even have fun while they’re gaming. A quartet of pigs — Panepinto micro pigs Ebony and Ivory, and ...

Pigs are known to be very smart animals, and now scientists have demonstrated that they are capable of playing video games. According to the BBC, scientists in the UK conducted research that they say ...