The topics of insect cognition and sentience are highly controversial and hotly debated. 1 I recently read an essay by insect sentience experts Helen Lambert, Angie Elwin, and Neil D’Cruze called ...
Bees play by rolling wooden balls — apparently for fun. The cleaner wrasse fish appears to recognize its own visage in an underwater mirror. Octopuses seem to react to anesthetic drugs and will avoid ...
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In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and insects were seen as simple creatures that reacted purely on instinct. But ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But just as we are starting to understand insect senses, something is shifting in the ...
Ever wondered if insects feel pain? We interact with them every day, and they're nearly 40% of all living species on Earth. Now new research explores the possibility that insects feel the subjective ...
Writing the other day about meat and its enemies, I suggested that the drive to persuade people to eat more insect-based food in order to help save the planet might run into objections from vegans ...
The topics of insect cognition and sentience are highly controversial and hotly debated. 1 I recently read an essay by insect sentience experts Helen Lambert, Angie Elwin, and Neil D’Cruze called ...