A new model of empathy: the rat

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This is incredibly cool:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-new-model-of-empathy-the-rat/2011/12/08/gIQAAx0jfO_story.html

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 7 December 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago)

Rats are only known to kill and eat one another when they are trapped together in a seagoing ship and other food becomes inaccessible. And then they feel terrible about it afterwards.

Aimless, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago)

that rat isn't free its just got a bigger cage >_<

am0n, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago)

yeah man, we're all like that rat we just don't know it

Spectrum, Friday, 7 December 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjBRNqwDPrU

am0n, Friday, 7 December 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago)

despite all my empathy

difficult listening hour, Friday, 7 December 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, but can you evaluate their empathy through contagious yawning?

Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Friday, 7 December 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago)


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