Social Experiences Determine Whether Rats Will Help Strangers (VIDEO)

University of Chicago Medical Center

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Peggy Mason and Inbal Bartal of the University of Chicago describe how they discovered that rats will help strangers out of empathy, but with a caveat -- they will only help rats of a type they are familiar with.

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University of Chicago, Kevin Jiang

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