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title: How do animals experience pain? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-do-animals-experience-pain/
date: 2017-01-17
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# How do animals experience pain?

Humans know the surprising prick of a needle, the searing pain of a stubbed toe, and the throbbing of a toothache. We can identify many types of pain and have multiple ways of treating it — but what about other species? How do the animals all around us experience pain? Robyn J. Crook examines pain in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals.