[Gpdd] Re: [SILLY] Wheeking: learned behavior?

Pam Bowyer petra-nef at shaw.ca
Thu Oct 7 14:10:03 EDT 2004




>I want to know:
>Do guinea pigs WHEEK in the wild? If so, why? There are no refrigerators 
>in the Peruvian jungle.


         I have read that this is most definitely a learned behaviour. Pigs 
do not use the specific food-call-wheek in the wild; this is something they 
have developed solely for the purpose of training humans to get food for them.

Pam





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