BBC WORLD SERVICE: Do Insects Feel Pain?

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Entomologist Adam Hart visits the Fly Facility at the University of Manchester where researcher Andreas Prokop describes the many insights that experiments on the fruit fly Drosophila have provided on aspects of human biology and health. Globally billions of these little flies have died in the pursuit of this knowledge.

Period19 Jun 2018

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  • TitleDo Insects Feel Pain
    Media name/outletBBC World Service
    Media typeRadio
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date19/06/18
    DescriptionEntomologist Adam Hart visits the Fly Facility at the University of Manchester where researcher Andreas Prokop describes the many insights that experiments on the fruit fly Drosophila have provided on aspects of human biology and health. Globally billions of these little flies have died in the pursuit of this knowledge.
    URLhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csxgp4
    PersonsMatthew Cobb, Andreas Prokop
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Keywords

  • insects
  • biology