Pigs recorded using tools for the first time
▻https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/10/first-tool-use-pigs-visayan-endangered
Though many wild species use tools, from chimpanzees to crows to dolphins, no one has reported the phenomenon in any pig, including the 17 wild pig species and domestic swine. This surprised Root-Bernstein, especially considering the Suidae family’s well-known intelligence.
But because wild pigs are so little studied and, in most cases, either endangered or critically endangered, it may not be so unusual that such innovation has escaped human eyes, says Root-Bernstein, whose study appeared in September in the journal Mammalian Biology. (Read why we love—and loathe—the humble pig.)