Will the Rats Help a Stranger, a Rat It's Never Met?

Mowgli experiment: Will rats help a stranger, a rat they've never met? And the answeris yes, theyll help a stranger. So mason has her original question answered. There is a biological basis for sympathy. But ever the scientist, she thinks of another question. What if lab rats would have felt familiar to each other since they'd gone through this genetic bottle neck back in the early 20 century? She wanted to know if a white rat would save a black rat if it had never seen a black rat before. The answer was no. "It suggests that there's this incredible effect of environment"