Empathy More Common in Animals than Thought (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

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Video of prairie voles. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 22, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by James Burkett at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and colleagues was titled, "Oxytocin-dependent consolation behavior in rodents."

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Larry Young

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