Serious answers please... i feel sorry for them.
2006-08-11 21:35:06 · 22 answers · asked by nnjamerson 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Well supposedly no one really knows...check out this article
2006-08-11 21:38:49 · answer #1 · answered by babyblue0222 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows. Several things are required to "feel pain". Spiders would have to detect the noxious stimulus, e.g. a strong acid, hot object. They would then need to communicate this information to a processor ( nerves in biological systems. Finally the information would have to be processed to feel pain (brains or ganglia in biological systems. The tarsal organ on the end of each spider leg has been shown to be temperature sensitive. so we know spiders can sense temperature. They also respond by sporadic movement in response to the high temperature. This means that the information has been communicated and at least partially processed.
SO, spiders can respond to a noxious stimuli by movement. but that doesn't neccasarily mean that the spider experienced an unpleasant feeling like we would say a human would.
I don't think you should feel sorry for spiders though because even if they could feel pain, it has been proven that spiders capacity for synaptic plasticity (memory) is extremely low. IN other words if you made it go through the most painful thing you could think of, it would near instantly forget it ever happened.
Theoretically you can ethically torture a spider, they would forget it ever happened and they're not even aware that they exist.
2013-12-05 05:30:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This observation led scientists to test the spider's reaction to various parts of the ambush bug's venom. Four components of the venom produce both pain in humans and are poisonous. Two other components produce pain, but are harmless. Others cause no pain. Spiders would detach a leg only when it was injected with the components that are both poisonous and painful. Scientists were surprised that spiders could feel pain. They were also surprised that the same substances that cause pain in humans also cause pain in spiders.
Science has, for too long, ignored the obvious fact that other living things can feel pain. Some have even taken this so far as to say that the unborn human child cannot feel pain when attacked during an abortion. The spider's proven ability to feel pain teaches all of us to be less unfeeling about the pain of others.
2013-10-30 16:36:30 · answer #3 · answered by Aldo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spiders do feel pain when "squished" because they have a nervous system that they use to "feel" their way around the web unless they are "squished" too quickly then they don't know they were "squished.
2006-08-11 21:43:13 · answer #4 · answered by KEVIN E 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-23 01:29:37 · answer #5 · answered by Claire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the hammering I got for asking if flies have internal organs, I reckon they do feel pain, yeah. So people, don,t squish 'em! I like spiders (and they eat the flies!)
2006-08-11 21:40:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
squishing them may be fast enough for its brain to interpret that he (the spider) is being squished.
2006-08-11 21:40:48 · answer #7 · answered by genetic_addict 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is one way U can know that either ask a spider or be the spider!!! But they will feel pain or maybe die before feeling pain. what ever it is why hurt any creation.
2006-08-12 00:12:08 · answer #8 · answered by Vinod . 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
They can feel pain, but being killed swiftly would be basically painless. Theyd be dead before the message had the chance to be sent to their brain.
2006-08-12 14:22:51 · answer #9 · answered by snake_girl85 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Make no bones about it..Pain is universal...in other words..I've been a spider 3 times..Hurts doesn't it?
2006-08-11 21:42:35 · answer #10 · answered by kit walker 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Of course, they do feel pain like every living creature.
But, when you squish them they feel pain in like 0.03 seconds
and die.
2006-08-12 00:39:41 · answer #11 · answered by John^Lorenz^Naz^Cutie! 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋