I was reading about a study on alcoholism using pigs. They have a social
pecking order in the herds or whatever they call a group of pigs. If the
lead pig was given alcohol until he became "alcoholic", then he would
actually lose his status among the other pigs. It was INTERESTING.
-----Original Message-----
From: BG Greer, PhD [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: peter singer again
In a message dated 9/20/02 5:58:00 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>You know that pigs are used to study many human maladies. Ie: alcoholism.
>???
>
In ways the are very similar to humans. I believe that they used to use
their
heart valves in humans.
Bobby