In a famous study Matthias Wittlinger, Rüdiger Wehner and Harald Wolf glued stilts on to the legs of some ants, and shortened the legs of other ants by amputating segments of their tarsi. This allowed them to show that ants count the number of steps they take when foraging.
If someone had done a similar study with mice, or people I would hope they would lose their university post and possibly go to prison.
But we don't see insect pain as see vertebrate pain.
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