Rats Research 2.1

     In the past, rats have been said to be very empathetic creatures. I read a post about rats and how they are empathetic not only toward their own kind but other rats as well. In the Washington Post article on rats, it said that during the experiment they conducted, they put two rats in a cage; one rat in a tube with a door and one outside of the tube. In both experiments, they put an albino on the outside of the tube but in one of the experiments, another albino was in the tube while in the other experiment, a black spotted rat was in the tube. The albino "refused to help the other albino rat but freely helped the black spotted rat". This was a very interesting end to the experiment.

 

Rat Empathy Experiment - animalcognition.org