# How do animals experience pain?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Robyn J. Crook
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/robyn_j_crook_how_do_animals_experience_pain)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Humans know the surprising prick of a needle, the searing pain of a stubbed toe, and the throbbing of a toothache. We can identify many types of pain and have multiple ways of treating it — but what about other species? How do the animals all around us experience pain? Robyn J. Crook examines pain in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. \[Directed by Anton Bogaty, narrated by Julianna Zarzycki\].

## Lectures

1. [How do animals experience pain?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/robyn_j_crook_how_do_animals_experience_pain/0b8a0e0de3fa), 5 min (TED's player)