Monday, February 8, 2016

Do animals have feelings?

Throughout her career as a neurobiologist, Peggy Mason has been told over and over that the rats she experiments on are not capable of empathy. Only humans and other primates can understand the emotions of another. Most other animals can't. And certainly not beady-eyed rats.
 But what she was witnessing in the lab was telling her something very different.

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