do beasts of nature feel pain when they are eaten by predators?

I guess I should've looked at the timestamps.

It's called utter exhaustion, not acceptance of fate. Adrenaline helps mammals fight for their life, until the body shuts down due to overload of CNS. What may look like acceptance, is just exhaustion (not a Do Nascimento mode, but true, not faked, unable to move a muscle anymore). Humans rarely are able to get into such kind of state. Animals are, even without fighting for their lives. For example race dogs, or horses - they can run themselves to death.

You could argue that the same cognitive faculties that grant us the above-mentioned abilities, also provide us with a greater capacity for consolation.

That is, while being mauled, a person may be able to distract themselves from the pain with thoughts of an afterlife, a grand plan, a goodbye thought, etc.

Animals simply have the pain, and the pain alone, to occupy themselves.

I do not believe it is utter exhaustion. Because sometimes there are only a few seconds between the moment the prey is caught and the moment it is killed. And the situation is still the same. And you can see in the eyes of the creature it is not exhausted.

Maybe a kind of paralysis due to fear, like what can happen to a person, in a highly threatening situation. But i still think those final emotions, wether it is fear, acceptance or something else, overcome the pain.

If more humans would adopt a vegan lifestyle animals would follow suit and we would all be morally superior beings.

There has been a lot of scholarly research on this topic, especially in recent years, that demonstrate your claims to be false. Besides anecdotal evidence that other posters here (e.g. dog owners) have pointed out. There are new books on the octopus as a notable example, that cover this topic. Your final comment - the "Woe is me" quote is the response programmed into just about every animal and insect on the planet, including humans. Whether or not there is a "thought process," that's the innate response.

sciencealert.com

There's Growing Evidence That Insects Feel Pain, Just Like Us

@ScienceAlert

We have long seen insects as instinctive, mindless creatures with robotic-like reactions to the world and all its impulses.

Open link

It’s the nature of the beast.

Depends upon the predator, the prey, and the situation

Many predators consume (eat, swallow) their prey while it is still alive. Some swallow live prey whole while others bite off and eat chunks live prey. Regardless of whether or not the prey species can experience pain, there is a greater chance of prey experiencing pain when it is being eaten alive.

Other predators will not begin to eat their prey until after it has died. Its not possible for prey to experience pain when dead.

What about the Number of the Beast

They’re sentient, but I agree that living more in the moment might reduce the ‘horror’ even if not the pain. Having followed African hunting dogs, wolves and a bunch of other carnivores on hunts for many years, I am quite sure it’s painful.

No, any other questions?

Yes they do feel horrible pain. It's why predators should be shot for the pain and suffering that they inflict on other animals.

You confuse an emotion, like terror, with a physical experience, which is what pain is.