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>>255466Squids... can't see or experience things, they don't even have something like a brain. No pain, no communication, no thinking or comprehending anything at all.
Actually, most species of squid can see AND have brains. The Giant Squid has the largest eyes on record-- the size of pie plates, AND a decent-sized brain. Further, most species of squid have intricate courtship rituals, and there's more evidence every year that the female squids discriminate against ugly, clumsy squid whenever they can. Also, although octopuses win the Smartest Invertebrate Award, squid have been known to pass simple tests and learn to differentiate between patterned shapes to receive treats as well. You might be thinking of Jellyfish. And want to run a couple google searches before you make any more crazy assertions.
As for the death thing, I feel that there's plenty of evidence that animals know death when they see it, set out to accomplish death when they hunt (or war, as in chimpanzees), and generally dislike the presence of it in their fellow species-member. Unless they're vultures, in which case they don't generally seem to give a shit. But there's pretty much no animal species in the world that treats a dead corpse of their own kind the same way they treat living individuals. At the very least, they'd eat it, or make even less of an attempt to interact with it.
As for comprehending death, it seems that nearly all animals have an aversion to disease, predation, and pain, whose extreme consequences do lead to death. On a primal level, probably everything comprehends death.
As for whether they can truly understand death in the sense of seeing it as the natural and inevitable endpoint of their lives, a few of the signing chimps and gorillas have indicated that they might-- but there's no way to ask the other animals. It's doubtful they have the long-range planning skills.
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