European researchers are developing a tool to help identify animal emotions through a vocal recognition system. It aims to help people who work with pigs identify whether the animals are in distress.

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Pigs are noisy creatures, from their contented oinks to their terrified squeals. But could those sounds contain clues to their emotions and welfare? An international team of researchers say so. For a ...

We can now decode pigs' emotions. Using thousands of acoustic recordings gathered throughout the lives of pigs, from their births to deaths, an international team of researchers is the first in the ...

An international team of researchers has reported the development of an algorithm that can translate the emotional state of pigs from the sound of their grunts. The researchers indicate the system ...

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported by evolutionarily ancient brain mechanisms, according to a new study from ...

Most people think they already know pigs. They’re messy, loud, always covered in mud, and mostly seen as farm animals people don’t think twice about. But the deeper you go into how pigs actually ...

An algorithm built by European researchers could help farmers “speak pig” to improve the animals’ welfare. By Corinne Purtill At any given moment, there are as many as 12,500 Duroc hogs snorting ...