{"id":1747,"date":"2018-06-29T07:45:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:33:18","slug":"dr-candace-croney-featured-on-new-tv-show-about-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/dr-candace-croney-featured-on-new-tv-show-about-animals.php","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Candace Croney Featured on New TV Show about Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Candace Croney, director of the Purdue University <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/caws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Animal Welfare Science<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/caws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CAWS<\/a>) and professor of animal behavior and well-being, made an appearance Saturday, June 23, on National Geographic&#8217;s season 1, episode 2 of \u201cHowie Mandel\u2019s Animals Doing Things.\u201d As host of the show, Howie Mandel narrates cute clips of animals doing odd, cute, or funny behavior while also including a splash of animal facts.<\/p>\n<p>In her remarks on the show, Dr. Croney was able to provide viewers with insight about the level of pigs\u2019 intelligence. She discussed how pigs have the mental sophistication to use mirrors, computers, and even joysticks. \u201cPigs are able to learn complex concepts and they can do things that we probably never gave them credit for in the past,\u201d explained Dr. Croney, who holds a joint appointment in Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/cpb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comparative Pathobiology<\/a> and the College of Agriculture\u2019s Department of Animal Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Click here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/tv\/watch\/6c40be3fa301982651c297f17d03a230\/\">to watch the episode online<\/a> (a sign-in with a qualifying TV provider may be required, but a limited preview pass is also offered). Dr. Croney appears about 34:25 into the show, in a segment titled \u201cMeet the Pig Expert.\u201d The program is produced for Nat Geo Wild, but also is carried on Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Candace Croney, director of the Purdue University Center for Animal Welfare Science (CAWS) and professor of animal behavior and well-being, made an appearance Saturday, June 23, on National Geographic&#8217;s season 1, episode 2 of \u201cHowie Mandel\u2019s Animals Doing Things.\u201d As host of the show, Howie Mandel narrates cute clips of animals doing odd, cute, or funny behavior while also including a splash of animal facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,41,28,29,11],"tags":[542,143,354,123,8,56,541,540],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers","category-faculty-staff","category-our-impact","category-our-people","category-research","tag-animal-behavior","tag-candace-croney","tag-caws","tag-cpb","tag-faculty","tag-homepage","tag-nat-geo","tag-pig-expert"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31875,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/31875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}