FISH AND PAIN
Sir, —I would like to rejily to' "A.M.P." Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and because the crayfish jumps about when being boiled, it does not necessarily mean that it does so through pain, but that its element has been changed and it instinctively objects. Fish instinctively bound away on being hooked, trout do the same thing if a shadow crosses their path. The "lowest forms of life are endowed with instinct. It it were not so, howvery soon we could rid ourselves of pests, the flea or fly for instance. A. P. Gregoey.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22345, 17 February 1936, Page 12
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