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Pigs use mirrors

Smart swine can figure out how to find a bowl of food

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Forget lipstick on a pig. The first report of pigs learning to use a mirror is about finding the food.

MIRROR WISDOM Domesticated pigs, such as this one posing at a fair, have the capacity to figure out how to glean information from a mirror when poking around their environment.