{"id":5583,"date":"2024-10-24T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/scientists-say-they-can-use-ai-to-understand-what-pigs-are-saying\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:00:31","slug":"scientists-say-they-can-use-ai-to-understand-what-pigs-are-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/scientists-say-they-can-use-ai-to-understand-what-pigs-are-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists say they can use AI to understand what pigs are saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOink oink?\u201d \u201cYes, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Communication with pigs may soon be possible as scientists say they have developed an AI tool that can interpret what the animals are saying.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>While it\u2019s not quite Doctor Doolittle, the algorithm is capable of decoding pig sounds and could potentially alert farmers to negative emotions, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hoped the tool can help improve animal welfare.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists, from universities in <strong>Denmark<\/strong>, <strong>Germany<\/strong>, <strong>Switzerland<\/strong>, <strong>France<\/strong>, <strong>Norway <\/strong>and the <strong>Czech Republic<\/strong>, used thousands of recorded pig sounds from different scenarios to build the algorithm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Scenarios include play, isolation and competition for food, and they found that that grunts, oinks, and squeals reveal positive or negative emotions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmotions of animals are central to their welfare, but we don\u2019t measure it much on farms,\u201d says study co-leader Elodie Mandel-Briefer, a behavioural biologist at University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that pigs kept in outdoor, free-range or organic farms, with the ability to roam and dig in the dirt, produced fewer stress calls than conventionally raised pigs.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers think this method could one day be used to label farms, helping consumers make informed choices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we have the tool working, farmers can have an app on their phone that can translate what their pigs are saying in terms of emotions,\u201d Ms Mandel-Briefer said.<\/p>\n<p>So what do the sounds mean? Let\u2019s have a look at some of the study\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Short grunts typically indicate positive emotions<br \/>\u2022 Long grunts often signal discomfort<br \/>\u2022 High-frequency sounds like screams or squeals usually mean the pigs are stressed<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOink oink?\u201d \u201cYes, of course.\u201d Communication with pigs may soon be possible as scientists say&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}