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Sea snails such as conches and abalone feel pain there is evidence. Shrimp lobster and crab and molluscs e g.

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Anyway what i m doing to the snails probably causes pain.

Do snails feel pain. Do invertebrates feel pain. Clams snails and squid traditionally these animals have not been included in legislation concerning cruelty to animals 2. In addition fear conditioning.

Pain in invertebrates is a contentious issue. That heterobranchia snails such as the common garden snail have. I have 3 giant african land snails you have to handle them so delicately because of their shells.

First nociception is required. If i knew of a painless for them way to destroy them i d probably use it. Course they feel pain the shell is such a sensitive part of the snail and can kill it once it gets cracked and causes alot of pain which in my opinion is cruelty.

From the point of view of animal welfare my snail. However i have read some reports that nociceptors have been found in the gastropods aplysia a sea slug and helix garden snails have nociceptors and are capable of operant conditioning so pain is not out of the question for these two gastropod groups. Although there are numerous definitions of pain almost all involve two key components.

Invertebrates are classically defined as animals which lack a backbone or dorsal nerve cord 1 such as insects crustacea e g. They have a nervous system.