AW: Fish can't feel pain ?

["Erik Pfingstner" <erikpfingstner at freenet_de>]

Hi Larry,

this sounds to me like one psychiatrist who diagnosed Jesus Christ as
mentally deranged almost 2000 years after death (for real).

If you look at a fish who has an infected wound, he will even go as far as
to twist his body away from that side which is sore. Take that same fish out
of the water and  put some iodine tincture on it. He will start jumping
around, even if he was not before. That is observing the obvious.

You see that the animal has pain. It is as simple as that. It is pretty far
off to notice that that part of the brain which is known to register pain
with other animals isn't existing and to conclude that the animal does not
register pain. It is rejecting what you have seen as untrue, sort of saying
it was a fata-morgana.

Thoughts concerning that the perceptions of pain by fish will differ from
ours would be reasonable.

Erik



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]Im
> Auftrag von Larry Botkin
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 9. Februar 2003 15:43
> An: KillieTalk at aka_org
> Betreff: Fish can't feel pain ?
>
>
> Okay, after the last few days of copyright wars (Wright did want
> a conflict
> to liven up the winter) we need something else to stir the pot. Heres one
> that I am read this morning..
>
> In one of the Chicago Sunday newspapers there is an article quoting a
> report published in the Reviews of Fisheries Sciences that:
>
>   "fish cannot feel pain. The largest study of piscine neurology,
> comparing
> the nervous systems and responses of fish and mammals, has found
> that their
> brains are not sufficiently developed to allow them to sense pain or
> fear.....  The study concluded that awareness of pain depends on
> functions
> of specific region of the cerebral cortex that fish do no possess. "
>
> The study was authored by James Rose a professor of zoology and
> physiology.
>
> Larry Botkin
> AKA 07801
> ChiKa
>
>
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