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| Potato and Goma being "trapped" |
This article shows another amazing way that rats are more
than they may seem. Two rats were housed together for an extended period of
time and were later moved into a new area in which one of them was restrained.
It seems that the distress of the trapped rats affected their free cohorts to
the point that they quickly began trying to free their cage mates. When placed
in the same situation once more, an overwhelming number of free rats
immediately moved to free the trapped rats, doing so even before opening a
similar container full of food. Experiments like this have allowed rats to join
a growing category of animals that are considered capable of empathy.
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