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Kennifer, 26, B.A. in Anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology.

I'm an academic junkie. Some of the stuff I like are antique maps, Richard Feynman and Carl Sagan, graphic novel and comic book culture, and reading American historical nonfiction (especially about Lewis & Clark, the Civil War and early western pioneering life). Someday I'd like to have a motorcycle built from the ground up.

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listofnow: themossikeepinmypockets: xindha: In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes. The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat. The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy — and apparently selfless behavior driven by that mental state. “A New Model of Empathy: The Rat” by David Brown, Washington Post ANIMALS RULE Can we get the rats to teach this to some humans I’ve met?

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themossikeepinmypockets:

xindha:

In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.

The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.

The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy — and apparently selfless behavior driven by that mental state.

“A New Model of Empathy: The Rat” by David Brown, Washington Post

ANIMALS RULE

Can we get the rats to teach this to some humans I’ve met?

(via rachelulgado)

Source: Washington Post

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    he saved him a chocolate chip :”’)
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    If rats are able to show empathy and compassion, why can’t humans?
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    Oh my god. Lies. Do this again.
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    Rats are extremely smart and stinkin’ cute!
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