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Animal pain is about communication, not just feeling
8 mins | Jun 17, 2018
Is pain necessary? For humans, it is just a feeling, but animals make use of it differently. Mirjam Guesgen, explores in Aeon magazine, how other species use pain to communicate with each other and illustrates how animals are much more than “little black boxes" driven by biological instincts.
