Image courtesy of Wenjian Sun et al. 2025-02-22
Joel Kontinen
Can mice have mercy to their hurt companions?
This proves that some animals are more conscious of
their companions than we usually think. This is not due to evolution but on
intelligent design as God also made the animals.
“When they find
another mouse unconscious, some mice seemingly try to revive their companion by
pawing at them, biting and even pulling their tongue aside to clear their
airways. The finding hints that caregiving behaviour might be
more common in the animal kingdom than we thought.
There are rare
reports of large, social mammals trying to help incapacitated members of their
species, such as wild chimpanzees touching and licking wounded peers, dolphins
attempting to push a distressed pod mate to the surface so it can breathe and elephants
rendering assistance to ailing relatives.
Now, Li Zhang at the University of Southern California (USC)
and his colleagues have filmed what happened when they presented laboratory
mice with a familiar cage mate that was either active or anaesthetised and
unresponsive.”
Source:
Chris Simms
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