How Smart is Your Guinea Pig? 🐹🧠

Are guinea pigs smart?! 🧠 Or are they just eat-sleep-poop potatoes? 😅Exploring guinea pig intelligence through scientific research and real-life examples from our herd of five guinea pigs - Phoebe, Callie, Nacho, Penelope and Minnie! Discover the truth about guinea pig cognition, learning abilities, spatial memory, and social intelligence, they might just surprise you! Amazing Animal Tricks Links: Website: https://amazinganimaltricks.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AmazingAnimalTricks Here are the Amazon Storefronts, where you can find all products I recommend for guinea pigs (small commission received - thank you)! Storefront UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/squeakdreams Storefront US: https://www.amazon.com/shop/squeakdreams HayPigs Treat Ball (hours of fun!): https://tinyurl.com/4sj5esfa Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:56 Social Intelligence 3:21 The Importance of Companionship 4:09 Association learning and Auditory Cues 5:33 Guinea Pigs Learn Tricks! 7:36 Enrichment for Your Own Piggies 9:02 Spatial Learning 10:08 Effect of Domestication? 12:10 Taming for Your Own Piggies 13:06 The Truth Recommended Taming Videos from the Channel: Top Tips for Taming Your Guinea Pigs: https://youtu.be/J9iGsGNojDw Guinea Pig Taming Do's and Don'ts: https://youtu.be/8UzKeMVsDn8 How to Tame your Guinea Pig in 10 Easy Steps: https://youtu.be/As0gVvx3GCM Scientific Sources: Social experience, behavior, and stress in guinea pigs (1991) Stability of the guinea pigs personality – cognition – linkage over time (2017) Wild genius - domestic fool? Spatial learning abilities of wild and domestic guinea pigs (2010) Sex differences in Guinea Pigs' Performance in a Spatial Navigation Task (2023) SQUEAK DREAMS LINKS: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SqueakDreams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/squeak_dreams/?hl=en My Etsy shop with guinea pig sewing patterns: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SqueakDreams Like the music in my videos? Get a free 30 day trial to Epidemic Sound here: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/fe93y6/ Links above are affiliate links.