Not exact matches
Often
animals will
mask their symptoms until they are very ill and in
pain and can't do it anymore.
Many
animals are experts at
masking pain and discomfort.
Animals are experts at
masking pain and discomfort.
Adding to this complicated list is the fact that cats often try to hide
pain, especially in the presence of humans and other
animals.9 Although this assists with their survival in the wild,
pain -
masking behavior is a hindrance to proper treatment, if any is provided at all.
Animals show
pain or
mask it in different ways.
Most
animals hide their
pain until it becomes too profound to
mask.
Pets can not talk, they
mask their
pain and illnesses from their humans and they need and benefit from rehabilitative efforts more than any other
animal.
Since rabbits are prey
animals, meaning that hold a place in nature that places them in a position to be preyed upon by other
animals, they have developed mechanisms to deal with that lot in life that might
mask signs of illness or
pain.
The debate and tardy recognition of
pain in
animals was confounded by the evolutionary drive that
animals have to
mask pain.