There's lots of talk about empathy lately - a idea which I thought was a universal good, until Elon Musk came out with his strange quote - the biggest weakness of the West is empathy (?!?)
But here is an article in the Washington Post (from 2011, so we've known this for a while!) that shows that rats will help a strange trapped rat out of a bad situation for no reason other than they can do it and are willing - so they empathise with the trapped rat, hearing it's trapped squeaks, and come and help it out.
Humans can do this too! Remember, next time you hear a human squeak in distress, try helping it out. Empathy is a universal good, let no one tell you otherwise!
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