Comparisons of intelligence across different species and phrases like "emotionally complex" place us on a slippery slope and should not be used to assess suffering in nonhuman animals. Solid research ...

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Every animal has that one weird quirk. The dog that won't eat out of the bowl. The cat who demands the sink be turned on whenever they sit in it. (*Raises hand*. That's me, that's my cat.) A Bearded ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- There's extensive evidence that pigs are as smart and sociable as dogs. Yet one species is afforded affection and respect; the other faces mass slaughter en route to becoming bacon, ...

Pigs are widely misunderstood as being dirty, lazy and unintelligent creatures, largely because of the environments we’re used to seeing them in. The cramped and confined environment of a factory farm ...

When a fight becomes particularly thorny and drawn out, sometimes it takes the involvement of an empathetic, calming third party to lower the temperature in the room. Or, it turns out, the farm. New ...

"We have shown that pigs share a number of cognitive capacities with other highly intelligent species such as dogs, chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins and even humans," neuroscientist Lori Marino of ...

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