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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by kortex on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:29PM (#29887099)
Sorry, "pigs are smarter than dogs" is gonna need a Citation Needed. I don't doubt some pigs are smarter than some dogs, and maybe they are comparable on average, but I'd put money on any of the working breed dogs over pigs.

("smarter" being general intelligence, reasoning, working memory, and inference. There might be some specific tasks pigs excel at, but that is different than measuring "smarts")

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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by mdorazio on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:51PM (#29887301)
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sx4s79c#page-1

Good summary of findings there. You can draw your own conclusions - it's probably case-dependent.

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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by csee on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:07AM (#29890535)
Smarter isn't that morally relevant. Their capacity to suffer is. Maybe smart is a proxy for that, but I highly doubt it's a good one, given that our prefrontal cortex was a modular attachment to a system capable of suffering which evolved a long time ago.
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