Study shows that rats will try to save members of their own species from drowning
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
Rats have more heart than you might think. When one is drowning, another will put out a helping paw to rescue its mate. This is especially true for rats that previously had a watery near-death experience, says Nobuya Sato and colleagues of the Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. Their findings are published in Springer's journal Animal Cognition.