Animal senses, with Ed Yong
Instant Genius
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Do Animals Feel Pain?
For a squid, when it gets injured in a specific body part, it seems to feel pain across its entire body. And that might be because a squid has short arms, it can't reach most of its body parts. Even if it knew where it was injured, it couldn't really do that much about it. Far better for the entire animal to act as if it was imper and take like protective measures. So even here across, in two creatures that we think of as being quite close related, their experience of pain is going to be very, very different.
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