Empathy & Compassion

Animal Empathy – Depends on the Animal **

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Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other person’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s shoes.

Elephants

Asian elephants have just been added to the list of animals that show tremendous concern for others. A study in the journal PeerJ found that when an Asian elephant detects that another is stressed out, it uses its trunk to gently caress the suffering elephant and emits a sweet-sounding chirp.

Ravens

Mice

Rats

Gorillas

Crows

Oranguatans

Cats and Dogs


http://news.discovery.com/animals/elephants-added-to-list-of-animals-that-show-empathy-140218.htm

by LittleSally

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