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Do Bees Feel Pain?
Season 1 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Do Bees Feel Pain?
We often expect to be on the receiving end of pain - whether from a broken elbow or from the tail-end of a bee. But what about bees? Do small creatures feel pain? Is it just a matter of defining pain in a way that we can claim bees feel no pain - or that they do, indeed feel pain? Or is the sensation of feeling pain so complicated that it defies a definition? Do bees simply react without actually 'feeling' anything? Or are they as anguished as humans when they suffer injuries?
We explore this question with McGill…
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