Wonder, why I am attarcted to class acts published in Science and Nature, even though am far....distantly associated in being related to such High Impact Classico Scientific Literary Artciles. However, there is no Harm in praising and reciting such works, is not it ?
So in the process, I end up into another articl "Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats"[Link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1427, Bartal et al., Science 18th October, 2011].
To me, I have a single complaint with this: Why on Earth we took so many years to find this out ? On the contrary, we all must be thankful to Professor Mason's Group to at least perform this kind of study and come out with so-relevant-to-human-life story.
Well, experiments are lucid, addresses very basics of anima [and hence, human] ethical and social behaviours. Loved the study from the abstract it self, at he slightest of the gaze.
Simple experiments were devised to show:
a. a free [noun] rat tends to free [verb] the cage-mate trapped in a restrainer.
b. learning comes quickly, and the rapidity at which it frees the mate, becomes improved.
c. rats end to not open inanimate restrainers.
Well...well....the cause for this study must be to shed light on the Human Social behaviour, no doubt, but we all know, how much human is ready to do ? Time to learn from rodents on social and empathic behaviours ? Must be...or else grue-some killings, hate-crimes, racism, crimes, death penalty, abuse, stratification of socio-economic statuses of most ethinc groups would not exist, if at all we behaved like animals, i.e., like rodents even !
TIME TO LEARN ANIMAL INSTINCTS !
Until something more thought-provoking comes to me for You.
Singing off.
Yours
Science-O-Nomist
So in the process, I end up into another articl "Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats"[Link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1427, Bartal et al., Science 18th October, 2011].
To me, I have a single complaint with this: Why on Earth we took so many years to find this out ? On the contrary, we all must be thankful to Professor Mason's Group to at least perform this kind of study and come out with so-relevant-to-human-life story.
Well, experiments are lucid, addresses very basics of anima [and hence, human] ethical and social behaviours. Loved the study from the abstract it self, at he slightest of the gaze.
Simple experiments were devised to show:
a. a free [noun] rat tends to free [verb] the cage-mate trapped in a restrainer.
b. learning comes quickly, and the rapidity at which it frees the mate, becomes improved.
c. rats end to not open inanimate restrainers.
d. freed cage-mates even if they were not "socially"-linked previously.
e. when chocolate containing restrainers were added to rat restrainers, rats opened both restrainers and shared he chocolate.
There-by leading the study to conclude that, roots of empathically motivated helping behavior is evident in rodents even !!!Well...well....the cause for this study must be to shed light on the Human Social behaviour, no doubt, but we all know, how much human is ready to do ? Time to learn from rodents on social and empathic behaviours ? Must be...or else grue-some killings, hate-crimes, racism, crimes, death penalty, abuse, stratification of socio-economic statuses of most ethinc groups would not exist, if at all we behaved like animals, i.e., like rodents even !
TIME TO LEARN ANIMAL INSTINCTS !
Until something more thought-provoking comes to me for You.
Singing off.
Yours
Science-O-Nomist
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