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.”

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[–] eronth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not going to say they make sense, I'm just listing the beliefs I've come across.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To be fair to you (and the beliefs you’ve come across), I just like pointing out common sense like it’s the exact opposite of that. I’d argue both that what you said is common sense, and that common sense is wrong about this. I’m not really sitting here confused, or shocked, or anything of that sort.