The behavioural cue of ‘flexible self-protection’ is a way to establish whether an animal feels pain, scientists say
Crickets that received the hot probe “overwhelmingly” directed their attention to the affected antenna – they groomed it more frequently, and tended to it over a longer period of time, he says. “They weren’t just agitated and flustered. They were directing their attention to the actual antennae that was hit with this hot probe.”
Also the fact that bug’s are silently going extinct and nobody cares to notice, seriously stick your head out the window right now and listen, that is a silent apocalypse my friend.
Pain is probably one of the original sensations. I doubt you could find any creature on Earth that doesn’t feel it. It is extremely useful for staying alive. I bet we will find out plants even feel some form of pain if we haven’t already.
Pops and cracks from a stressed plant doesn’t mean a physical sensation of pain is occurring.
It depends on the definition:
It does fit this definition. The only part that arguably doesn’t fit is the “characterized by physical discomfort” part, but that’s characterized by, not defined by. It isn’t necessarily required, and I can see an argument to say it’s true for many plants too.
To say it’s definitely not pain I think is far too strong a belief. I can go either way on it. I would lean towards calling it pain, but it’s far from clear.
As you said, this is a scientific community. One of the most important things to science is being skeptical of our biases and pre-existing ideas. Claiming they don’t feel pain for certain is not that.
Plants don’t have nerves at all, so no
OK, yeah. They don’t, but they do have chemical receptors. They don’t technically have a nervous system, but they can react to stimuli.
A bear trap can react to stimuli
Dude what is this news? Of COURSE insects feel pain? A child can see this clearly, as I did when I was a young’un. They twitch and scurry when injured or burned. Don’t ask. Anyway.
Why would they be different from animals and FISH that was apparently news as well, that they feel pain and anxiety when caught and killed. Oh and crayfish and lobster when boiled alive 😂😂😂 why wouldn’t they feel pain? It just seems so stupid to me to assume they wouldn’t.
Here I thought we already knew this and did it anyway because… We gotta eat, right? Animals kill and eat barely-even-dead prey all the time, it’s just nature, right??
But I grew up and learned humans don’t think other animals feel pain whatsoever. Like bruh wuuuut??? Whatchu think was going on?!
People claim fish don’t feel pain to feel better about torturing and eating them. So that is not ahocking at all to me
dont care
Nobody asked
Over the many decades I’ve been alive, there have been regular articles saying “scientists discover that such-and-such an animal may feel pain.” And then its forgotten and people continue to treat animals terribly, until a couple of years later a similar article comes out. I can’t see where the thought would even come from in the first place that these animals wouldn’t feel pain, except for religious dogma and a desire to continue abusing animals while telling yourself it’s OK. There’s no reason to even suspect most animals aren’t feeling pain.
Why would you assume another organism can feel pain without any proof? Rationalism requires skepticism.
Why should anyone assume you can feel pain without evidence? You’re not gonna like how the evidence is collected
