Learn how people across cultures accept animal empathy while viewing human thinking as fundamentally different.

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Crabs can feel pain when they are boiled alive during conventional food preparation —- as do other shellfish like lobsters, according to a new study. Zoologists from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg ...

What, when, and how do nonhuman animals feel? Source: Gundula Vogel/Pixabay. In late 2015, a new journal was founded that dedicated itself to the investigation of animal sentience: that is, the ...

Fish often avoid intense stimuli, but scientists and animal welfare groups have long debated whether fish can feel pain. So is there an answer? Animal rights organization PETA claims on its website ...

Animals used in rodeos have suffered fatal injuries, including broken backs and necks, heart attacks, and ripped blood vessels leading to agonizing deaths.

It’s one of those uncomfortable questions that pops into your mind the minute you see a fish flailing at the end of a line: do they actually feel pain, or is it just a reflex? Anglers and animal ...

Comparing animal welfare across species is fraught with conceptual and empirical challenges. 1 However, we know some progress has been made as we’ve learned how to identify the large differences in ...