Rat attempts to free a fellow rat from a trap (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Rat attempts to free a fellow rat from a trap

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An unconstrained rat attempts to free a trapped rat as part of an experiment testing whether rats act on their empathy for other rats.

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Photo courtesy of Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal

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