Sentience and Animal Ethics

On today’s episode: One scientist built a robot to hunt down and scare the fins off of mosquitofish. Bladeless, noninvasive….brain surgery? And what is sentience? How does it factor into our decisions about animal treatment? All that and more today on All Around Science.

LINKS:

• [ARTICLE] Putting the fear of bass into mosquitofish — with a robot
• [ARTICLE] UVA Develops Precise Brain Surgery Without a Scalpel
• [ARTICLE] The world’s first octopus farm – should it go ahead?
• [ARTICLE] Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in domestic law

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