The Brelands Tried to Condition Pigs to Drop Wooden Coins

question 360

True/False

The Brelands tried to condition pigs to drop wooden coins into a bank. This turned out not to be easy, as the pigs tended to make instinctual responses as compared to the learned responses.

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