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https://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/people/dewaal.shtml

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Invited Commentary

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Andrew Crump, Heather Browning, Alex Schnell, Charlotte Burn, and Jonathan Birch, Sentience in decapod crustaceans: A general framework and review of the evidence

Abstract

It is high time to explore the sentience of invertebrate animals, but this topic cannot be discussed without also exploring their emotional lives, including positive emotions. Sentience probably evolved to allow the regulation of emotions by endowing them with feelings.

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Author Biography

Frans B. M. de Waal, ethologist and primatologist. C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus at Emory University, Atlanta, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Specialist of social behavior and cognition of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1747