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vovinskyhttp://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1427.full
Whereas human pro-social behavior is often driven by empathic concern for another, it is unclear whether nonprimate mammals experience a similar motivational state. To test for empathically motivated pro-social behavior in rodents, we placed a free rat in an arena with a cagemate trapped in a restrainer. After several sessions, the free rat learned to intentionally and quickly open the restrainer and free the cagemate. Rats did not open empty or object-containing restrainers. They freed cagemates even when social contact was prevented. When liberating a cagemate was pitted against chocolate contained within a second restrainer, rats opened both restrainers and typically shared the chocolate. Thus, rats behave pro-socially in response to a conspecific’s distress, providing strong evidence for biological roots of empathically motivated helping behavior.
Вкрадце - крыски спасают корешей из клетки.
А когда клеток две, причом в одной шоколадка, а в другой - кореш, то крыска открывала оба контейнера, а потом, обычно, крыска-спаситель со спасаемой жрали шоколад на пару.
Это к вопросу о поведении млекопитающих.
Whereas human pro-social behavior is often driven by empathic concern for another, it is unclear whether nonprimate mammals experience a similar motivational state. To test for empathically motivated pro-social behavior in rodents, we placed a free rat in an arena with a cagemate trapped in a restrainer. After several sessions, the free rat learned to intentionally and quickly open the restrainer and free the cagemate. Rats did not open empty or object-containing restrainers. They freed cagemates even when social contact was prevented. When liberating a cagemate was pitted against chocolate contained within a second restrainer, rats opened both restrainers and typically shared the chocolate. Thus, rats behave pro-socially in response to a conspecific’s distress, providing strong evidence for biological roots of empathically motivated helping behavior.
Вкрадце - крыски спасают корешей из клетки.
А когда клеток две, причом в одной шоколадка, а в другой - кореш, то крыска открывала оба контейнера, а потом, обычно, крыска-спаситель со спасаемой жрали шоколад на пару.
Это к вопросу о поведении млекопитающих.
