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Originally Posted by idi banashapan
debatable, i think. would it not be more likely an animal avoids death because of a learned response (usually through observational learning - i.e., peers / caregivers will run from certain other animals), or through classical conditioning or operant conditioning (whereby an animal may not go an sit in a raging fire because the nervous system creates unpleasant sensory feedback when the animal gets too close to something hot and thus learns not to get too close next time, for example)?
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Isn't that what I just said?
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I'm not sure an animal is aware that being killed is painful per-se.
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Isn't that what I just said?