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Evidence for Pain and Suffering in Other Animals

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Considerations of pain and suffering have been major determinants of the relationship between humankind and other animals, particularly in the development of legislative definitions of this relationship and, more recently, as the basis for the debate on the moral status of animals.

‘We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, allention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.’

Charles Darwin (1871). The Descent of Man

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Rose, M., Adams, D. (1989). Evidence for Pain and Suffering in Other Animals. In: Langley, G. (eds) Animal Experimentation. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20376-5_3

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