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 ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard Researchers say they have created a technology tool that uses pig sounds to interpret different emotions the ...

We know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and therefore subjective, but we are pretty hard-pressed to imagine anyone could resist the absolutely adorable sounds of a couple of happy farm pigs ...

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 ...

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 ...