Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center,Emory University, bear discovered that a social laboratory rodent, or the prairie vole,shows an empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own)-based consoling response when other voles are distressed. This is the first time researchers bear shown consolation behavior in rodents, and this discovery ends the long-standing belief that detecting the distress of others [...]
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