Awkward Silences


I'm a walking contridiction.
I'm growing, changing, learning who I am and who I want to be. I'm trying. I'm a wife, slave-in-training, animal lover, budding masochist, avid reader, real-life child and mother. I'm a big tree hugger. I try to use my voice for those who can't, help where I can, and play the devil's advocate too often for most people. I'm sarcastic, ambitious, paranoid, sensitive, loving, caring, dedicated, lazy, stubborn, happy, faithful, and perpetually curious. And the world goes on.

Ask me anything

10th December 2011

hamburgerjack: winwhal: kalelle: oneironautical: katreus: In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes. The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat. The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy — and apparently selfless behavior driven by that mental state. “A New Model of Empathy: The Rat” by David Brown, Washington Post Rats are far more intelligent creatures than people give them credit for. I like rats more than I like people mostly.  Reason #468 to like rats. They are better than most people. I actually considered getting a Rat befeore I got Panthro. I had it all planned out. His name was going to be Johnathan and I had my eye on a brown one. But then I realized, that as much as I enjoyed the idea, I love small animals, but I’m too fearful of hurting them or something.

hamburgerjack:

winwhal:

kalelle:

oneironautical:

katreus:

In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.

The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.

The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy — and apparently selfless behavior driven by that mental state.

“A New Model of Empathy: The Rat” by David Brown, Washington Post

Rats are far more intelligent creatures than people give them credit for.

I like rats more than I like people mostly. 

Reason #468 to like rats. They are better than most people.

I actually considered getting a Rat befeore I got Panthro. I had it all planned out. His name was going to be Johnathan and I had my eye on a brown one.

But then I realized, that as much as I enjoyed the idea, I love small animals, but I’m too fearful of hurting them or something.

Source: Washington Post

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    rats man, better than people…
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