The behavioural cue of ‘flexible self-protection’ is a way to establish whether an animal feels pain, scientists say

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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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    2 months ago

    Also the fact that bug’s are silently going extinct and nobody cares to notice, seriously stick your head out the window right now and listen, that is a silent apocalypse my friend.

    • SunshineJogger@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Yes. It’s one of the most likely apocalypse scenarios.

      Here’s to hope enough manage to evolve fast enough to adapt to the human poisoning of the word. Because that’s the only viable path I can see. That humans manage to change fast enough is highly unlikely

    • knexcar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I wish some bugs would go extinct, bed bugs, mosquitos, ticks, maybe yellow jackets. Seems like those populations are strong than ever.

    • Shindo66@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I could make aong crazy post about this. This is bad. I wanted to be an entomologist my whole childhood and i consider myself an amateur one. There are no bugs. Where there should be ants and earthworms, there are none. After a rain worms should be all over the place, the castings should be found everywhere. I keep looking and they are not there. I went to at least 20 lakes last summer in my canoe fishing with my kid and looked for aquatic insects. There are none. So there are so small fish. So there are no big fish. I just went all over florida just last week, i saw a couple of butterflies. No mosquitos, no ants, no spiders, no anything. Every year my building is really close to lake erie and gets covered in insects in the spring, havent seen a single one. I keep looking and haven’t found anything.

      • Jumi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        When I was a child my dad’s garden was full of all kinds of butterflies. Then the ownership of the field on the other side of road changed and almost from one day to the other they were all gone and never returned.