How do animals experience pain? - Robyn J. Crook
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Humans know the surprising prick of a needle, the searing pain of a stubbed toe, and the throbbing of a toothache. We can identify many types of pain and have multiple ways of treating it — but what about other species? How do the animals all around us experience pain? Robyn J. Crook examines pain in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
Why is it hard to know whether animals that are very different to us, like invertebrates, experience pain?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Robyn J Crook
- Director Anton Bogaty
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Sound Designer Weston Fonger
- Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Julianna Zarzycki
