Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1112091600180.23925@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>,
Cyberculture <cyberculture@zacha.org>
Subject: on rats' empathetic behavior
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:03:00 -0500 (EST)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8947483/Rat-rescues-are-thanks-to-mum.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2071722/Rats-wrongly-maligned-actually-kind-hearted-generous-creatures.html?ito=feeds-newsxml - I think these are important stories. I read a book about rats in NYC, and a lot of it was organized around extermination and their perceived 'viciousness.' Given human anomie so much of the time, it's good to know that we go against the rest of the mammalian grain, even though we're doing our best to extinguish it. - Alan