Rats live like 2 years.
In two years, they learn how to be better to each other than a large part of the human race.
I think of it in another way: What these rats display is the natural behavior.
These rats live two years, so they don't have time to learn otherwise. Human greed is a learned behavior, and it takes a lot of time to learn that.
... which isn't news to me.
For a time it seemed that everybody wanted to shit on animals as being way inferior to humans in every way, including lacking empathy emotion feelings and stuff.
But that was always wrong. Who has ever worked with animals be it horses dogs or farm animals knows they have a soul. Well, but also a lot of them are just evil bastards.
Empathy over natural selection ftw.
Empathy was created by natural selection - of groups, not individuals, of course.
now make the rats comprehend fascism.
Would be an interesting study if that was possible.
have you considered that no longer hearing cries of healp is reason enough
And the chocolate chip? Animals having empathy is the most logical conclusion if the experiment went as described here.
"wow, that guy is annoying. Maybe this will shut him up"
On the other hand, they willingly live in sewers and their sense of smell is stronger than ours.
But good or bad is still subjective.
E: maybe a little broad. I meant pleasant smells. In the case of rats probably dictated by biology.
You'd probably willingly live next to a bakery.
Rats together strong
If a rat has a better developed sense of empathy than you do, then you've probably made some seriously awful life choices somewhere along the line.
I'm curious if the rat would bother to let the other rat out if it's not confined to an enclosure with the caged rat. If the rat can just run off and ignore the cries for help, will it still help? That would be much more impressive.
Which is why rats never built empires and conquered the world
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