Crickets MAY lament the cruel twist of fate that brought them to the jaws of your pet bearded dragon. They MAY silently cry out in anguish at the loss of all future opportunity, expected gandparentage of a large brood, the sudden looming question of an afterlife.
Or they may experience a relatively simple and brief pain, while displaying features so alien to ours that it does not prime people to be calloused to human suffering.
Crickets MAY lament the cruel twist of fate that brought them to the jaws of your pet bearded dragon. They MAY silently cry out in anguish at the loss of all future opportunity, expected gandparentage of a large brood, the sudden looming question of an afterlife.
Or they may experience a relatively simple and brief pain, while displaying features so alien to ours that it does not prime people to be calloused to human suffering.