Snipping a leg

[babynik14]

Do they feel it when you cut a part of their leg off? do they freak out after or do they just not feel it?

 

[Rob Byatt]

Why do you want to do this ?

 

[Birdfly]

Yes they do feel it when you snip of a leg.

I can see were Robs coming from: why do you want to do this?

If a leg is damaged enough to warrent removal the mantis will do it its self usually

 

[Asa]

He didn't say he was going to do it.

 

[Birdfly]

True

 

[colddigger]

simply put, yes

 

[OGIGA]

After you snip it off, they shouldn't be freaking out. But still, remember to be really careful or else you might snip off a part that you did not intend to snip.

 

[Rob Byatt]

There really is no need to cut the leg off. The mantis will remove the leg if it is neccessary.

If you cut it off there will be a lot of 'blood' loss. Insects cannot form scar tissue.

An insect will remove a leg at a safe point; they know what they are doing.

 

[babynik14]

im not going to snip off any legs haha i was simply just wondering because i see a lot of posts where people were going to and wondered if they felt it.... and by the way.. im a SHE not a HE

 

[Asa]

Exactly.

Wait... :shock:

 

[pizzuti]

It would be impossible to know for sure if they feel "pain" in the same way we do. Cetainly they react to stimulii that would cause pain in humans or mammals. I hope that insects don't feel pain, though, because that means that crickets and fruit flies feel the praying mantis eat them alive, which would make keeping praying mantises very immoral.

 

[OGIGA]

Umm well... I'm not a vegetarian but don't hate me.

 

[Sparky]

I think they CAN feel pain. Once I accidently smushed the tip of its foot and it was rubbing it and licking it like a kid with a scraped knee.

Shame on me

 

[Asa]

It would probably require a more devoloped nervous system to actually 'feel' pain. They react to it, but don't actually sense any coherent feeling.

 

[buddhistsoldier88]

Theres no evidence to suggest that they do or dont. But because the central nervous system is much simpler than ours, i dont think they feel the pain like we do.

 

[colddigger]

pain is just taking notice to damage and not enjoying it

 

[buddhistsoldier88]

pain is just taking notice to damage and not enjoying it

there can be alot more to it than that...