Scientific American Magazine 4.23.21
Our recent paper on pain experience in octopus features in a new article out today in Scientific Amercian Magazine. The article describes a scene in the recent documentary “My Octopus Teacher” where the octopus survives a predation attempt but loses an arm in the process; this type of injury is exceptionally common in wild cephalopods. Our lab’s research on physiological responses to injury in cephalopods supports the idea that cephalopods have a similar experience of pain as mammals after tissue injury, and that similar welfare protections for cephalopods in fisheries and research are warranted. Read the article here.