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Harry Krause wrote:
wrote:
JohnH wrote:

You echo the words of my grandfather, a Minnesota farmer, who always said
pigs were the smartest of farm animals. Chickens are the most stupid.

Your grandfather learned through simple observation the same fact that
scientists continue to verfiy.Based up certain standards of
"intelligence", pigs are smarter than dogs, smarter than several
species of primates, and are often considered about as advanced as a
three-year-old human being. Pigs are also one of the animals considered
most biologicaly similar
to people, and there are certain organs that can even be transplanted
from pigs to humans.
One "skill" at which pigs are apparently very adept is playing video
games. With specialized
porcine joysticks, pigs can actually learn to play some of the simplest
video games at a level that is typical for a human toddler.

Pigs have an exceptional sense of smell. They are used to find
mushrooms that grow entirely underground, as the pigs can smell them on
the surface. A bomb-sniffing or "seeing eye" pig might not be all that
far fetched a concept. :-)

None of this sounds Kosher to me.

Nyuk, nyuk!