Summary

This page hosts a full screen version of our table assessing which potentially sentience relevant features different invertebrate taxa possess. A description of the background and nomenclature for this table is here on our blog. Descriptions of what the features mean are split into three posts: part 1, part 2, part 3. There are also summary of results by feature, by taxa, a report on our findings on unconscious processes in humans, and a cause profile of invertebrate welfare.

Our series of work on invertebrates sentience is below, in order:

Credits

This database was developed by Daniela R. Waldhorn, Jason Schukraft, Max Carpendale, Peter Hurford, and Marcus A. Davis. Haven King-Nobles, Brandon Perry, Gavin Taylor, Kyle York, Tom Houlden, Ronke Bankole also contributed research. Table programming was engineered by Timothy “Manu” Meixell, with updates by Saulius Šimčikas. Ashley Francis, Gabrielle Hass, Riley Peebles, and Avi Iyer helped with copyediting. Thanks to Kieran Greig and Luke Muelhauser for important feedback. Thanks to Catherine Low for help with project coordination.