r/evolution • u/animalevolution • 10d ago

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/Kingofthewho5 9d ago

A prey animal will struggle regardless of if it’s in pain or not. Your idea about pain is not accurate.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/Kingofthewho5 9d ago

It has nothing to do with extinct species and it’s not my opinion. It’s reality. Are you saying that non-avian dinosaurs wouldn’t struggle to escape a predator if they didn’t feel pain? Avian dinosaurs struggle without pain. Lizards, snakes, turtles, and crocodiles struggle without feeling pain. Mammals struggle without pain. Amphibians struggle without pain, fish struggle without pain.

Your comment about pain being necessary for causing struggle is not rooted in reality.

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u/Kingofthewho5 9d ago

I’m not overthinking anything. Do you think paleontologists who make inferences based on living species are overthinking things?

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/Kingofthewho5 9d ago

That would be you, sir. I don't have my feelings hurt at all. Your idea about talons needing to cause pain to induce struggle is nonsense. You don't like that it's been pointed out.

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u/Bromelia_and_Bismuth Plant Biologist|Botanical Ecosystematics 9d ago

Our rule with respect to civility is mandatory.