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Behavioural Indicators of Pain and Suffering in Arthropods and Might Pain Bite Back?

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Pain is an unpleasant emotional state that produces behavioural changes to minimize future tissue damage and promote recovery and survival. These behavioural changes have been demonstrated in crustaceans, insects, and, to a lesser extent, spiders. Other arthropod groups have received...

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Autor principal: Elwood, Robert W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10451332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37627393
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13162602
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: Pain is an unpleasant emotional state that produces behavioural changes to minimize future tissue damage and promote recovery and survival. These behavioural changes have been demonstrated in crustaceans, insects, and, to a lesser extent, spiders. Other arthropod groups have received little attention with respect to pain. The examination of situations in which individuals might attempt to cause pain in order to manipulate others might offer new opportunities for research into pain in arthropods. For example, defensive venom, traumatic mating, and fighting might inflict pain. This might benefit the animal causing the pain and result in a cost to the animal in pain. ABSTRACT: Pain in response to tissue damage functions to change behaviour so that further damage is minimised whereas healing and survival are promoted. This paper focuses on the behavioural criteria that match the function to ask if pain is likely in the main taxa of arthropods. There is evidence consistent with the idea of pain in crustaceans, insects and, to a lesser extent, spiders. There is little evidence of pain in millipedes, centipedes, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs but there have been few investigations of these groups. Alternative approaches in the study of pain are explored and it is suggested that studies on traumatic mating, agonistic interactions, and defensive venoms might provide clues about pain. The evolution of high cognitive ability, sensory systems, and flexible decision-making is discussed as well as how these might influence the evolution of pain-like states.
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spelling pubmed-104513322023-08-26 Behavioural Indicators of Pain and Suffering in Arthropods and Might Pain Bite Back? Elwood, Robert W Animals (Basel) Review SIMPLE SUMMARY: Pain is an unpleasant emotional state that produces behavioural changes to minimize future tissue damage and promote recovery and survival. These behavioural changes have been demonstrated in crustaceans, insects, and, to a lesser extent, spiders. Other arthropod groups have received little attention with respect to pain. The examination of situations in which individuals might attempt to cause pain in order to manipulate others might offer new opportunities for research into pain in arthropods. For example, defensive venom, traumatic mating, and fighting might inflict pain. This might benefit the animal causing the pain and result in a cost to the animal in pain. ABSTRACT: Pain in response to tissue damage functions to change behaviour so that further damage is minimised whereas healing and survival are promoted. This paper focuses on the behavioural criteria that match the function to ask if pain is likely in the main taxa of arthropods. There is evidence consistent with the idea of pain in crustaceans, insects and, to a lesser extent, spiders. There is little evidence of pain in millipedes, centipedes, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs but there have been few investigations of these groups. Alternative approaches in the study of pain are explored and it is suggested that studies on traumatic mating, agonistic interactions, and defensive venoms might provide clues about pain. The evolution of high cognitive ability, sensory systems, and flexible decision-making is discussed as well as how these might influence the evolution of pain-like states. MDPI 2023-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10451332/ /pubmed/37627393 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13162602 Text en © 2023 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Behavioural Indicators of Pain and Suffering in Arthropods and Might Pain Bite Back?
title_sort behavioural indicators of pain and suffering in arthropods and might pain bite back?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10451332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37627393
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13162602
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