Rats Feel Each Other's Pain

[Pigeon]

Empathy lets us feel another person's pain and drives us to help ease it. But is empathy a uniquely human trait? For decades researchers have debated whether nonhuman animals possess this attribute. Now a new study shows that rats will free a trapped cagemate in distress. The results mean that these rodents can be used to help determine the genetic and physiological underpinnings of empathy in people.

Please, in the future, stop referring to CEO's and Congress people as rats. They do not deserve that high of a rating.

[Egg]

Plants have been tested using a lie detector and seem to be able to sense the pain in others as well.

http://guydeakinsgardening.com/blog/archives/293/

[Pana]

There's a whole new field emerging in biology centering on plant communication. Its very, very exciting.

Called, "Plant Neurobiology".

[Dr Exile]

Any one who has a dog or a cat knows that they feel empathy when you feel bad.

[Egg]

Yup. I love me some cats and dogs.