Measuring animal emotions – and why it matters

Humans can communicate by speaking, writing or gesturing and also have faces that usually portray how they feel. What if the emotions of farm animals could also be interpreted accurately through their communication, faces and body language? An effort to do just this is being made at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Technology continues to expand into all facets of life, and the Internet of Things is poised to cross the boundary between humans and animals. Someone can tr