
Bob Fischer: The case for including insects in our animal advocacy
How I Learned to Love Shrimp
Insects' Astounding Abilities & Diversity
Insects showcase remarkable abilities such as treating wounded kin with antibiotics, engaging in tool use, offering gifts to one another, singing songs, and demonstrating facial recognition skills. They can also make advanced cognitive leaps like transit inference, showing their intellectual capabilities. With over 5.5 million species, insects present a vast and diverse group, making it challenging to generalize their traits. This diversity highlights the complexity and depth of these organisms, urging us to reconsider our perceptions. Despite their intelligence, the key question remains whether insects can experience suffering.
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