“…The pig seems as trainable as rats or monkeys. Even though Pavlov had to give up using pigs for conditioning experiments (Moore and Marcuse, 1945), his difficulties have been proved not to be a general phenomenon. The growing number of published learning and memory studies in different pig breeds documents this fact (see for instance Arnfred et al, 2003;Bolhuis et al, 2004;Chaput et al, 1973;Ernst et al, 2005;Hagl et al, 2005;Held et al, 2000Held et al, , 2005Klopfer, 1966;Mendl, 2000, 2004;McLeman et al, 2005;Mendl et al, 1997;Moustgaard et al, 2002Moustgaard et al, , 2004Moustgaard et al, , 2005aSobotka and Brown, 1986;Tanaka et al, 1998;Tanida et al, 1991).…”