• Question: Do the worms get hurt in the process of you testing them?

    Asked by ChaiLatte to Rachel on 9 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by 225rhed48, elliexoxo.
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      Rachel McMullan answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Hi
      It’s a bit hard to tell whether worms feel pain but since they don’t really have emotions I don’t think they feel pain in the same way we do.
      Having said that one definition of pain is a reaction to harmful things like heat and worms do avoid heat.

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