Mary Bates, PhD

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Do Rodents Show Empathy?

Photo: Jason Snyder, Via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. For a long time, it was thought that empathy was unique to primates, or even humans. But in the past few years, several experiments seem to indicate rats and mice feel each other's pain, too.Read my story about the scientific evidence for empathy in rodents at BrainDecoder: Empathic Rats.