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Do worms feel pain and are ants happy? Why the science on invertebrate feelings is evolving

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70% Informative

Invertebrate sentience is becoming an ever livelier topic of debate and with new science we are getting new insights.

Dr Andrew Crump at the Royal Veterinary College helped ensure that new UK laws recognising animal sentience were amended to include large cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans octopuses, lobsters, crabs to you and me.

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67

Informative language

64

Neutral language

10

Article tone

informal

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English

Language complexity

47

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not offensive

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not hateful

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long-living

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