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The learned pig was a pig taught to respond to commands in such a way that it appeared to be able to answer questions by picking up cards in its mouth. By choosing cards it answered arithmetical problems and spelled out words. The "learned pig" caused a sensation in London during the 1780s. It became a common object of satire, illustrated in caricatures and referred to in literature.

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  • Learned pig (en)
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  • The learned pig was a pig taught to respond to commands in such a way that it appeared to be able to answer questions by picking up cards in its mouth. By choosing cards it answered arithmetical problems and spelled out words. The "learned pig" caused a sensation in London during the 1780s. It became a common object of satire, illustrated in caricatures and referred to in literature. (en)
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  • The Learned Pig (en)
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Story_of_the_Learned_Pig_by_an_Officer_of_the_Royal_Navy_1786.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Toby_the_sapient_pig.jpg
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  • Thomas Rowlandson's print The Wonderful Pig satirises the original "learned pig" of 1784-5. (en)
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  • The learned pig was a pig taught to respond to commands in such a way that it appeared to be able to answer questions by picking up cards in its mouth. By choosing cards it answered arithmetical problems and spelled out words. The "learned pig" caused a sensation in London during the 1780s. It became a common object of satire, illustrated in caricatures and referred to in literature. The original "learned pig" was followed by other trained pigs, which subsequently became a feature of fairs and other public attractions in Europe and America during the 19th century. In the words of G.E. Bentley, "They served as subjects for cartoons by Rowlandson and moral essays in children's books and savage doggerel by Blake, and they illustrated the manners of the English in works by Joseph Strutt and Robert Southey and Thomas Hood. These freaks of learning clearly exercised a fascination among the literary geniuses of the age as they did among the swinish multitude." (en)
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  • Selecting cards to spell out names or numbers (en)
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  • "Toby" (en)
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