Empathy is "having the ability to understanding and share the feeling of another." It was not until I read an article from Chicago.edu I learned how rats display empathy. I read about an experiment that was conducted that tested whether or not a rat would free a rat stuck in a small constricting tube. One of the tests done was with one rat that was restrained in the tube and another that was in a cage where it could see the other rat but was unable to take action. The article explains how to rat in the cage, unable to take action, seemed "agitated", as it was not able to help the other rat. Here, the rat in the cage seemed to be experiencing "distress or even pain suffered by another subject. After several days, the free rat learned to open the cage and free the trapped rat. A further experiment was conducted to really test the rat's loyalty. This test "was designed to give the rat a choice." Chocolate was placed between the cage and the tube containing the free rat's companion. The article states the free rat generally saved the trapped rat before opening the chocolate container. Much to my surprise reading another article by the New York Times, explaining another experiment testing whether different colored rats would free each other, rats did not necessarily display what human empathy is. The conclusion of that experiment was it depended on what color group the rat was raised in, as for whether or not the rat would save another. The free rat would only save the other rat if the rat was raised with the free rat.
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