Humans are always so shocked when other animals show empathy and compassion... Every. Single. Time. Silly silly humans.

I might under fire for saying this, but I really, really wish people would stop using animals for experiments. It's disgusting and cruel

I just love rats. They're so adorable. It's a shame they only given such a short lifespan.

Rats are so sweet, most people have no idea

So, rats have more empathy than republicans, good to know.

Empathy comes embedded to us :')

I am not letting you have my chocolate!

The next study should test whether humans have empathy. Based on news reports, it's in short supply.

that's kinda sweet

its crazy when a rat has more empathy than a majority of humans do!.

Rats are much like people in the fact that they have different personalities. The sweet rat was letting it out because it doesn't want to see suffering. The human like rat was letting it out so it didn't have to listen to its whining.

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So in fact calling someone a 'rat' is a compliment and if a rat calls another 'human' it's an insult..

I kind of remember that during one of these experiments, one of the free rats shagged the trapped rat, proving that rats can be d***s too.

My takeaway from this: STOP LOCKING THE RAT UP, HE DOESN'T LIKE IT!

I love that fact that in my 70 years of life I have watched again and again as abilities that at one time were used to describe humans as somehow special, as creatures to lord it over all the others from some imagined pinnacle, be proved to exist in animals of all sorts, including comparatively simple life-forms. In the end, we're just critters like everything else.

And we still think them as bad

Any ratty owner knows how sweet and social they are.

This is absolutely lovely, I've always loved Rats and the they're sometimes more empathetic than people. Don't you just that animals have more humanity than some humans. It kinda makes me wonder if humanity dying out.wouldn't be a good thing.

I've had cats do something similar.

Conclusion: rats are more empathetic than most humans

Makes the whole, "You dirty rat," insult passe

I have 🐀. Though they cuddle and love each other, they are competitive about food. They do not share and would never leave food for the others. They try to store it where it can't be found.

Isn't chocolate poisonous for rats?

The only thing I learned here is that rats can eat chocolate

the fact that these innocent animals are used and abused by humans to show that they have souls, empathy and are better living beings than humans themselves, is mental

Oh great! He gets him out and find out the humans put him in there.... "We'll make them pay for this!". This is how uprisings start.

Stop bring cruel to animals for stupid experiments like this

Why? Cruelty just because your bigger and you can I guess. I think they should have tried the experiment with scientists instead.