It's just astonishing how smart some animals are these days. From primates that take selfies to dogs that have learned how to escape pet gates, animals are getting smarter and smarter every day. It seems like it's only a matter of time until they rise up and take over the world from humans, Planet of the Apes style. Until then, however, I'll keep watching and loving all these great videos of animals doing smart things I never expected.
The pig in the video below, for example, posted by YouTuber Nicolle von Eberkopf, might just be the smartest pig in the universe. Not only does he love popcorn (I mean, really, what pig loves popcorn?) — he also knows how to solve color-coded puzzles.
Named Moritz the Clever Pig, he certainly lives up to his name as his human hands him a yellow pig puzzle piece (with a little rope on it so that he can carry it in his mouth). Moritz grabs the puzzle piece in his jars and heads over to the pig-shaped puzzle where he tries to figure out where the piece goes before finally getting it settled into its corresponding yellow space.
It's pretty amazing to see this pig use a little trial and error to find out where the puzzle piece goes. Once he gets the yellow piece into place, the blue and red pieces are a piece of cake.
Moritz fills the puzzle in and gets a little cheer from his human and then munches away on his favorite snack: popcorn!
As Charlotte might write in her web, that sure is "some pig!"
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