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.

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 ...

At any given moment, there are as many as 12,500 Duroc hogs snorting around the barnyards of Imani Farms, a pig farm in southwestern Ontario. The farm’s pens are a cacophony of squeals, screams, barks ...

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 ...

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 ...

How we speak matters to animals. Horses, pigs and wild horses can distinguish between negative and positive sounds from their fellow species and near relatives, as well as from human speech. The study ...

These 'feral farm kids' are living their best life.

In recent years, Alex, the African gray parrot, developed a vocabulary of 150 words. PEPPERBERG: That's a good boy. Truck - good boy. ALEX: Want nut. PEPPERBERG: Well, you can have a nut. Go choose ...