Are pigs intelligent?

That’s easy, yes! Decades of research and scientific observation has clearly
shown that pigs are intelligent, complex creatures.

Pigs have the capacity to experience some of the same emotions as

humans, like happiness, excitement, fear, and anxiety. They’re able to
remember important pieces of information for long periods of time. They
have broad social abilities too, like distinguishing individuals out of a
group; communicating with each other through touch, smell, sound, and
sight; and learning to pick up on the verbal and nonverbal cues of
humans.

Memory
Remember the cereal box and wooden spoon experiment? Well, not only
did it show that pigs know how to distinguish one object from another, it
also revealed that pigs have quite robust long-term memories. Once a pig
was familiar with the cereal box, five or more days could pass and the pig
would still remember the box and prefer to play with new objects he was
shown.

Perhaps even more fascinating, pigs are able to prioritize their memories
based on importance. When given access to two different sources of food,
one with more food and one with less, pigs quickly learned and could
consistently recall which source had the more abundant supply and seek
out that source again in the future.

Tool use

In 2015, an ecologist named Meredith Root-Bernstein was observing

Visayan warty pigs as they built their nests to prepare for incoming piglets.
Root-Bernstein noticed that one clever pig had picked up a piece of bark in
her mouth and started using it to dig and move soil for the nest.