Pigs, like humans, can get bored. Perhaps they’d like to play a game to amuse themselves? Even better, with interacting humans? A project designed to examine such possibilities is underway at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht and Wageningen University Livestock Research Department in The Netherlands. It’s called ‘Playing With Pigs’ and is “researching the complex […]
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Boar Taint Smells Different to Different People, Probably
What smells like boar taint to you might not smell like boar taint to other people, suggests this study: “How olfactory acuity affects the sensory assessment of boar fat: A proposal for quantification,” Johanna Trautmann, Jan Gertheiss, Michael Wicke, Daniel Mörlein [pictured here], Meat Science, Volume 98, Issue 2, October 2014, Pages 255–262. The authors, […]
Rob Ives’ Swine Flew
Rob Ives‘ automaton called “Swine Flew”:
Then, named cows. Now, happiness of pigs.
Catherine Douglas, co-winner of the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in veterinary medicine for determining that cows who have names give more milk than cows that don’t, has now done research on the happiness of pigs. In this inverview with the BBC, she explains that a glockenspiel figured prominently in the research: (Thanks to investigator Scott […]